Ricky Ponting Reveals His Most Cherished World Cup Win As The Leader

Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting is one of the very few captains, who has an illustrious record when it comes to the captaincy in Test as well as ODI cricket. He is one of the two captains along with Clive Lloyd to have won more than one World Cup as a captain and was also part of Australia’s victorious as a player in 1999 under Steve Waugh. Among his two World Cup wins as the skipper, the Tasmanian rates the 2007 World Cup victory as his most memorable one.

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Under Ponting’s leadership, the men in yellow ran through opponents as Australia became world champions twice undefeated. Not only Ponting but also the likes of Adam Gilchrist, Matthew Hayden, Andrew Symonds, and Glenn McGrath were highly instrumental in their dominance. The Tasmanian also enjoyed two champion trophy victories in the year 2006 and 2009. The 45-year old retired from international cricket in 2012, having made his debut in 1995.

Ponting cites the reason for 2007 being the most memorable one:

Australia’s leading run-scorer in Test and ODI cricket stated in Twitter that the win in the Caribbean as the most exceptional one. He said that it arrived when a majority of their star-studded players were at the twilight of their careers. The likes of Adam Gilchrist, Matthew Hayden, and Glenn McGrath all played in their last World Cup edition in 2007 which they finished it by bagging their fourth title, beating Sri Lanka in the final.

For me it's 2007 because when we got there the overriding sentiment from the media and the public was that our team and certain players in our team were way past their best. But we had another undefeated campaign https://t.co/jweDan6YP6

— Ricky Ponting AO (@RickyPonting) January 12, 2020

Gilchrist was crowned as the man of the match for his destructive knock of 149 off only 104 balls at the Kensington Oval in Barbados. The men in yellow’s most recent World Cup victory came in 2015 under Michael Clarke. Unfortunately, they relinquished it in 2019, having been defeated by the eventual champions England in the semi-final. They have the most number of World Cups in history, having won five of them.

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