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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    Err you assume incorrectly.I was referring to his 130-odd in the Chennai test facing Akram,Waqar and Saqlain. That inning doesnt. His desert storm innings does surpass it significantly. Literally won the match singlehandedly against a superior bowling and fielding unit while chasing a target...
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    Rubbish. Infact, there are several Tendulkar innings that Ponting has never come close to matching- his 130-odd in Kolkata being the most obvious example.
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    How..very...******** and how very detached from the reality of how prodigies go. Not true. A prodigy is a better one by default because he/she can do stuff with less experience to help. Period. Mozart's compositions wern't superior to Bach's or Wagner's. He simply started composing at an age...
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    Look, i have already said i do not wish to engage you because of your blind hiney-kissing mentality and 'fitting in complex' because you deliberately ignore points i make or refuse to acknowledge them only to bring em up later like a broken record. I have already explained to you how the...
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    ?? This makes zero sense. The fact that countries don't match the population of India makes it a ridiculous statement to think that Tendulkar's type of pressure, where his success/failure literally meant success/failure of the team ( true till about 1998) and demi-god status is matched...
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    Again, you know nothing of cricket if you think that. Ponting's pace-play is about as overrated as it gets. Unlike you, I've seen Ponting's so-called 'pace-play' when great pace bowlers were still around and operating. Not very impressive i might add. 44-odd average until 2002 against the...
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    Nope. I dont think a 10 run average difference between a player at his peak( Ponting) and the final career record of Chappell, Border, Waugh, etc ( all of whom played beyond their peaks) is significant at the best of times. And especially when we take into consideration that Waugh, Chappell...
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    The way you are thinking shows a remarkable lack of common sense. It is certainly about mileage and about age as well. Its a LOT harder to play sports as a pro when you are a teenager than when you are in your mid 20s. Tendulkar was holding the same 'job' and responsibility at 18 that Ponting...
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    My most liked number one team of the recent era !!!

    Aussie votes for Aussies and WI votes for WI shouldn't count for obvious reasons.
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    Well so what ? When nearing the end of his road, Viv was a much diminished batsman who was overshadowed by the likes of Richardson, Haynes, etc. Doesnt make them as good as Richards. And yes, Tendulkar is the oldest player playing today when measured from the debut date. As i said, its a...
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    You know very little cricket if you truly think that, i am sorry to say.
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    Richards and Marshall or Ponting and McGrath?

    Yup. Most people forget that this WI bunch were, alongside the Pakistani greats, the best pace bowlers on dead wickets hands down. The amount Warne gains by getting a spinning track is more than offset by decline in the rest of Aussie pace attack on a similar surface( McGrath excepted) while the...
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    Doesnt matter. Tendy and Lara have a lot more miles on them than Ponting- especially Tendy, who is the oldest playing international cricketer today. And its a given that different batsmen will have peaks at different times. The fact is, Lara's first peak and Tendulkar's peak are/were better than...
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    Regardless of the stats Ponting posts, unless he scores runs vs top callibre bowling like McWarne like those two have while batting in a weak batting lineup and succeeds in India, Ponting would never be in Lara-Tendulkar class.
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    Richards and Marshall or Ponting and McGrath?

    I will highlight my portion of the quote again: Believe me, Martyn, Langer, Hayden, etc. were all at sea vs Ambrose on WACA. If its vs Ambrose, Marshall, Holding, Garner, etc. on a WACA pitch, i expect them to be dismissed in single digits nine times out of 10.
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    Richards and Marshall or Ponting and McGrath?

    The Sabina Park pitch of the 70s and 80s, if anything was more terrifying than WACA during the same era. Bridgetown is a bouncier track than WACA too or was. To suggest that a western australian or for that matter, anyone, Bradman included, would be doing fine facing throat-high balls shooting...
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    Richards and Marshall or Ponting and McGrath?

    vs bowlers of Ambrose's callibre who get the ball to jump to their throats from good length ? i dont think so.
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    Richards and Marshall or Ponting and McGrath?

    Have you ever seen Martyn, Langer, etc. vs Ambrose on Perth-type wickets ? Look- the WI pacers were masters at pitching the ball at good length and still getting it to jump high as your chest. That type of bowling this current Aussie team's never faced for long..and if it were from 4 pacers of...
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    Richards and Marshall or Ponting and McGrath?

    Yes but not all tests were played on hard bouncy decks like Perth, Bridgetown or Sabina Park. Those pitches, the WI were simply terror. They would much through batsmen like Hayden, Martyn, Gillchrist etc. on a truly bouncy pitch. I don't think you remember how truely uncomfortable just Ambrose...
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    Where does Ricky Ponting rank?

    Ponting = on a rung below alltime greats like Lara, Tendulkar, Richards, Chappell..in top 20 alltime, outside of top 10.

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