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It was 25 years ago that Mark Butcher scored a monumental 173 not out in England’s successful chase against Australia in the Headingley Test. He scored seven other Test hundreds, some of them against the most fearsome attacks. He is now a popular commentator and sharp analyst of the game. Excerpts from Butcher’s exclusive interview…
PBKS skipper Shreyas Iyer with head coach Ricky Ponting during a nets session ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket match against Lucknow Super Giants at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow on May 22, 2026. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP Nine 200-plus totals conceded and six consecutive losses have left Punjab Kings…
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Punjab Kings’ coach Ricky Ponting. File | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Punjab Kings enters the IPL season without one of its unsung heroes from last campaign, Josh Inglis. The Australia wicketkeeper-batter played the role of an enforcer at No. 3 when called upon, providing lightning-quick starts even after an early dismissal. While efficiently replacing…
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Australian cricket legend Adam Gilchrist has weighed in on the greatest all-rounder debate, challenging Ricky Ponting’s assertion that Jacques Kallis is the best cricketer of all time. While Ponting recently hailed Kallis for his staggering numbers with both bat and ball, Gilchrist believes statistics alone don’t define greatness and instead placed the late…
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File image of Virat Kohli.© AFP Former Australian captain Ponting has no shame in admitting that he carried on playing at the highest level longer than he should have. Back in 2022, Kohli had taken a month off from the game and that worked well for him. Ponting feels time has come for…
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File photo of Mohammed Shami. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Questioning Mohammed Shami’s injury management, former greats Ravi Shastri and Ricky Ponting feel the veteran pacer could have tilted the series in India’s favour had he been added to the squad in the second half of the five-match Border-Gavaskar series. India’s decade-long stranglehold on the…
With unprecedented attendance in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia, former Australia captain Ricky Ponting asserted that it’s hard to argue that the rivalry between the two teams isn’t the biggest in world cricket. Historically, the England-Australia rivalry is seen as the biggest in Test cricket but the attendance record for the…
Jasprit Bumrah was nominated the ‘Player of the Series’© AFP Despite India ending up losing the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 1-3, ICC Hall of Famer Ricky Ponting believes that pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah’s exploits are not only the best he’s seen of a visiting bowler in Australia but probably also the best fast-bowling display of…
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India captain Rohit Sharma opted to rest in the 5th Test against Australia.© AFP Australia cricketing great Ricky Ponting feels the path for Rohit Sharma to play Tests again will be a long and difficult one after the regular Indian skipper opted to rest from the ongoing fifth Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test at the…
First day of the ongoing fifth Test between India and Australia grabbed a lot of limelight due to multiple reasons. The day with Rohit Sharma missing the match and giving the captaincy to Jasprit Bumrah. As everyone was coping with Rohit’s absence, another row escalated after star batter Virat Kohli got embroiled into…
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