Ashes 2009 - Ponting plots his final act of revenge
There is very little that Australia [Images] captain Ricky Ponting [Images] has failed to achieve in his distinguished career, either as an individual player or as a leader. There is, however, one major achievement that has eluded him -- captaining his country to an Ashes series win in England [Images]. Ponting will get the chance to rectify that over the next few months and he cannot hide his excitement. "It's something very dear to my heart," he recently told reporters in Australia. Ponting is undoubtedly one of the greatest batsmen to have played the game and could well finish up as the leading run-scorer of all time when he finally retires. Only Sachin Tendulkar [Images], Brian Lara [Images] and Allan Border [Images] have scored more Test runs than Ponting but the Tasmanian boasts a higher batting average than them all and, at 34 years of age, he still has time to overtake them. Ponting's success with the bat has not gone unrecognized. He twice been chosen as the ...
