Full Name: Ricky Thomas Ponting
Nick Name: Punter
Date of Birth (Birthday): 19 December 1974
Birth Place: Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Height: 5 ft10 in
Batting style: Right-hand
Bowling style: Right-arm medium, Right arm off break
Role: Batsman, Australian Test and ODI captain
Marital Status: Married
National Team: Australia
Sports Played : Cricket
Ponting made his first-class debut for Tasmania in November 1992, when just 17 years and 337 days old, becoming the youngest Tasmanian to play in a Sheffield Shield match. In 1995 he made his One Day International (ODI) debut, during a quadrangular tournament in New Zealand in a match against South Africa. His Test debut followed shortly after in1995 home series against Sri Lanka in Perth, in which he scored 96. Punter became One Day International captain in early-2002 and Test captain in early-2004. After being involved in 151 Tests and 352 ODIs, Ponting is Australia's leading run-scorer in Test and ODI cricket, with more than 25,000 international runs as of July 2010. He has scored 39Test centuries behind only Indian Sachin Tendulkar (50), and South African Jacques Kallis (40) and third for most runs in ODIs behind Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya. Ricky Ponting remains the most successful Australian captain of all time, with 48 victories in 77 Tests since 2004 to 2010, while as a player he has taken part in 99 victories, the most by anyone in history.