Many consider Ricky Ponting the master of all masters. A champion batter and an even more intimidating captain, Ponting ruled world cricket as long as he played. Even after retirement, Ponting stayed relevant, taking up various coaching gigs and producing results. Even today, as head coach of the Punjab Kings, Ponting continues to give back to the game that gave him an identity and so much more. The Delhi Capitals may have struggled to align with Ponting’s ways, but Punjab Kings seem to have benefitted aplenty, as two wins from three matches indicate.
Like any great cricketer, Ponting went through several highs and lows in his career, but he remembers clearly the slump India’s Rahul Dravid found himself in. Ponting and Dravid were two of their era’s greatest No. 3 batters, crossing paths several times. In fact, in the famous 2003 Adelaide Test between India and Australia, which Sourav Ganguly’s team won – Dravid and Ponting scored double-centuries each.