Head Coach of Delhi Capitals’ Ricky Ponting
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Ricky Ponting was not simply into amassing a whole bunch in his heydays as a participant, the two-time World Cup profitable former Australia captain has revealed that he additionally meticulously collected every bat with which he scored an international ton, full with the precise rating and the title of opposition written on it by him.
The 49-year-old Ponting, who’s at the moment the pinnacle coach of Delhi Capitals, was one of the feared big-hitters of his period and was talking on the DP World’s Beyond Boundaries initiative of handing out kits to younger gamers in Delhi.
Ponting scored 71 international a whole bunch, a staggering 41 of them in Tests, throughout his illustrious enjoying profession that drew to an in depth in 2012.
“Believe it or not, I have still got my first bat at my home. It still has all the stickers and everything on it. We literally have had probably a thousand of bats by now, some are more special than others.”
“I kept every bat I scored an international hundred with and I write on it, the score and who it was against of,” the normally reticent Ponting revealed.
One of his most memorable knocks was the World Cup-winning unbeaten 140 in opposition to India within the 2003 version’s remaining.
He pulverised the Indian bowling assault led by Zaheer Khan to nearly single-handedly clinch the trophy for Australia.
Does that bat function in his assortment too?
“Yes it does,” pat got here Ponting’s reply even because the then India captain Sourav Ganguly, who’s at the moment the Delhi Capitals Director and was sharing the dias with the Australian right here, regarded on with a smile on his face.
But this memorabilia is hidden away at his house and isn’t meant to be confirmed to anybody.
“It’s not like it’s displayed in my house. I keep those in my garage,” he added.
Ganguly additionally spoke on the occasion and recalled the time he acquired his first bat.
“I remember I had my first bat when I was 13 and how happy I was because the ball would just fly off the bat,” the previous BCCI President mentioned.
David Warner, who’s enjoying for DC this season, mentioned his first bat was a birthday current.
“My uncle got me my first bat for my birthday, and it never left my side and used to be next to my bed,” he mentioned.