LEGENDARY CRICKETER RICKY PONTING ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT !

LEGENDARY CRICKETER,RICKY PONTING,ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT FROM TEST CRICKET !

TAKE A BOW, MR. RICKY PONTING !
The World Of Cricket In General And Australian Cricket In Particular, Will Never Be The Same Again After This PERTH -TEST Starting Friday !AT LEAST TO ME LIKE AVERAGE CRICKET FANATIC, THE RETIREMENT OF A BATSMAN-cum-FIELDER OF THE STATURE OF RICKY PONTING,MEANS THE END OF A KIND OF MADDENING JOY WHILE WATCHING CRICKET !

The Most Successful Australian Captain And One Of The Best Captains In The Cricketing World So Far, Ponting Excites Ecstasy In The Heart and Minds Of Cricket Fans Worldwide!HE REMAINS MATCHLESS IN CERTAIN RESPECTS! ALSO,VULNERABLE IN OTHERS !
A Brawl Outside A Pub In Sydney Earned Him A Bad Press And A Short time Suspension In 1999.He Was Cool As Well As Agressive In And Out Of The Field!
He Would Be Caught Pushing And Shoving The I.C.C.-CHAIRMAN,SHARAD PAWAR!The Same Year He Would Be Seen Getting The Best Player Of The Year Award From The Same Man !
RICKY PONTING a.k.a. PUNTER LED A LIFE FULL OF COMMITMENT TO THE PROFESSION THAT SUITED HIM BEST!HE PLAYED INTERNATIONAL CRICKET FOR ALMOST TWO DECADES !AND,HE KNEW WELL HOW TO DOMINATE INSIDE THE FENCE !
The Tasmanian Born Cricketer Played His First ODI INTERNATIONAL In 1995 Against South Africa And Was Out At Just One Run !He Played His Test Debut Against Sri Lanka At Perth In December Last In 1995 And Had Scored 96 !
At The Same Vennue,PERTH,He Will Be Waving A Goodbye To The Crowds, Who ,I AM SURE, Will Be Hurt To See 'ONE OF THE GREATEST CRICKETERS OF ALL TIME' Going Towards The Dressing Room Only Not To Come Again Inside The Ring !
Ponting Had A Brief With The International Media A Few Hours Ago Wherein He Told He Will Stop Playing Cricket After The Third Test At Perth Against The Touring South Africa!He Said He Had Not Been Upto A Level For The Last Few Months And Therefore Decided To Quit Cricket Now Considering It The Best Time To Do So !He Further Told He Had Had Very Deep And Hard Thinking On The Topic And He Arrived At This Decision On His Own And He Pointed Out That There Was No Hand In It From The Selectors!He Said He Had Given His Best To The Game Of Cricket And Now He Had Nothing New To Offer! Because He Had Not Been At Par With The Standards Of Australian Cricket Team ,So It's High Time To Say It A Goodbye,Pointing Pointed Out !

With A Feat Of 41 Test Centuries And 30 OneDay Hundreds, Ricky Ponting Lags Behind of Only One Cricketer, Sachin Tendulkar,But, He Attains This Laurel Playing Less Matches In Both The Formats Of Cricket !
Ponting Has More Than 13 000 Runs In Test Cricket And More Than 12000 In OneDayer !A RECORD SECOND ONLY TO TENDULKAR !
And He Is The First Australian On Both Counts !
Two World Cups Under His Captaincy And 48 MATCH TEST WINS, RICKY PONTING IS THE BEST IN CONTEMPORARY WORLD CRICKET !
Playing His Hundredth Test, He Scored Two Centuries: One In Each Inning!

When The Perth Test Begins ,He Will Be Playing In His 168th Tests And His Last !
So I Pray He Smashes A Ton Or Two !
A FAREWELL TO (BATTING) ARMS !

RICKY, THOU ARE A TRUE LEGEND AND THY DEVOTION TO THE GAME OF CRICKET WILL ALWAYS BE INSPIRING TO ONE AND ALL !

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