RICKY PONTING

Age: 37
Tests: 167 (with one to come, equalling Steve Waughs
Australian record of 168)
Debut: v Sri Lanka in December 1995 in Perth
Final Test: v South Africa starting today in Perth
Runs: 13,366 at 52.21 (second-highest Test run-scorer
behind Indias Sachin Tendulkar on 15,562)
Centuries: 41 (third-highest in Tests behind South
Africas Jacques Kallis on 44 and Tendulkar on 51)
Highest score: 257 v India, 3rd Test 2003 at MCG
Captained Australia: 2004-2011
ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS: 375
(including three World Cup titles, two as captain)
Runs: 13,704 at 42.03
Centuries: 30
Highest score: 164
T20 INTERNATIONALS: 17
Runs: 401 at 28.64
Highest score: 98 not out

TEST CRICKETS TOP 10 RUN-SCORERS

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Sachin Tendulkar (India) 15,562

Ricky Ponting (Aus) 13,366
Rahul Dravid (India) 13,288
Jacques Kallis (South Africa) 12,941
Brian Lara (West Indies) 11,953
Allan Border (Aus) 11,174
Steve Waugh (Aus) 10,927
Shivnarine Chanderpaul (West Indies) 10,696
Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka) 10,640
Sunil Gavaskar (India) 10,122
Source: AAP

A brilliant career: Ricky Ponting celebrates his selection for Australia in 1995, top left; Calling time on his
career at the WACA Ground yesterday, main; hitting the 200 milestone on his way to his highest score of 257
against India in 2003, right; sporting a black eye after a Kings Cross incident in 1999; as a child in Hobart;
and scooping the prize pool at the Allan Border Medal in 2007