An ode to Legendary Ricky Ponting

By Adrian Meredith

MELBOURNE, Australia (TheSportsNEXT) December 6, 2012: Growing up in Tasmania, we all knew about David Boon, the first Tasmanian to have a lengthy international cricket career.

Ricky Ponting Guard of Honour wasn’t pre-planned: Cricket South Africa

By Bipin Dani

MUMBAI, India (TheSportsNEXT) December 5, 2012: The emotional farewell to Ricky Ponting in his last Test innings at Perth was not pre-planned, according to Cricket South Africa (CSA).

Australia-South Africa Test Series: Top Performers

By Adrian Meredith

MELBOURNE, Australia (TheSportsNEXT) December 5, 2012: The high-profile Test series between the two best Test teams in the world, Australia and South Africa, has just concluded with Proteas winning the three-match series 1-0 as they won the Perth Test by 309 runs.

Ricky Ponting Farewell in Pictures

By Meg Anderson

PERTH, Australia (TheSportsNEXT) December 3, 2012: A tearful but upright Ricky Ponting, the legendary Australian batsman, left the WACA Ground in Perth on Monday for one final time as he put an end to a celebrated test career spanning over 17 years.

Ricky Ponting pulls stumps on 17 years long career

By Nadene Smith

SYDNEY, Australia (TheSportsNEXT) December 3, 2012: Former Australian captain and legendary batsman Ricky Ponting called it quits on Test career Monday when he was out for eight runs in Australia’s second innings against South Africa in the Perth Test.

Khizar Hayat admits to wrongly giving out Ricky Ponting on Test debut

By Bipin Dani

MUMBAI, India (TheSportsNEXT) December 1, 2012: Before the commencement of the Perth Test, which has been Ricky Ponting's last in his career, total number of centuries scored by former captain is 41.

Australia rule Adelaide Test as Clarke hits 2nd straight double ton

By Nadene Smith

ADELAIDE, Australia (TheSportsNEXT) November 22, 2012: Australian captain Michael Clarke hit second straight double hundred as Australia ruled on opening day of the Adelaide Test against South Africa on Thursday.

Who should replace Shane Watson and Ricky Ponting?

By Adrian Meredith

MELBOURNE, Australia (TheSportsNEXT) November 4, 2012: Ricky Ponting is a risk of missing the first Test against South Africa due to injury - enough of a worry that he came off early in the most recent Sheffield Shield game.

Over-Punishment of Ricky Ponting: Dark Chapter in Australia Cricket

By Adrian Meredith

VICTORIA, Australia (TheSportsNEXT) September 19, 2012: The year was 1999. It was a warm January night and Australia had just won an ODI a couple of days prior. They had a night off. No training, no nothing. The team were given a free license to go out and get as drunk as they like. And a lot of them did.

Indians, Aussies are the best paid cricketers: Forbes

By Abhishek Manroa

NEW DELHI (TheSportsNext) July 28, 2012: Indian and Australian players are the best paid cricketers in the latest list published by the Forbes Magazine.

The top five spots in the Forbes Magazine’s list of best-paid cricketers are occupied by Indian cricketers including Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir  (third highest-paid, 7.3 million US dollars) and Virat Kohli (fourth, 7.1 million US dollars).

Wife Before Wicket becoming common in Cricket

By Bipin Dani

MUMBAI (TheSportsNext) July 22, 2012: Former Pakistani skipper, Inzamam-ul-Haq was not aware that apart from him, there are a few other Test captains, who while playing their 100th Test, have also hit centuries.