Ricky Ponting proves his appetite to remain Australia’s top dog
There comes a time in every great player's career when the milestones crop up so frequently that instead of being proof of ability they begin to weigh heavily. Each one says: "How much more of this can you take? Why not just sit under the shade of this tree and rest a while?"
Ricky Ponting, youthful no longer at 35, has not been short of milestones in this series. There was the 3,000th ODI to start the NatWest Series at the Rose Bowl when he suggested deadpan that it felt like he had played in most of them.
Then today they came all at once: his 13,000th one-day run, with only Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya ahead of him, his 350th appearance and with it a world-record 219 as captain. It would be enough for lesser men to make backs ache and feet burst into blisters.
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