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 Ponting hits 35th Test century
23rd May 2008 11:00 IST
Agencies
Australian captain Ricky Ponting went past Indian batting legend Sunil Gavaskar and West Indian great Brian Lara by scoring his 35th Test century in the opening Test against West Indies at Kingston in Jamaica on Thursday.
Ponting reached his milestone, when he moved down the pitch and whipped a flighted delivery from debutant off-spin bowler Amit Jaggernauth through mid-wicket for two.
It completed his fourth hundred in a row in the Caribbean, and his seventh against West Indies which carried him past Gavaskar's and Lara?s 34 Test centuries on the list of batsmen with the most hundreds in Tests.
Ponting went to the break on 96 and soon celebrated his landmark off 137 balls in just under four hours.
Only current Indian star Sachin Tendulkar, with 39, has more Test hundreds.
Ponting was within reach of his landmark, when Australia reached 189/3 at Tea, and duly completed the milestone after the break and was finally dismissed eleven minutes before close of play for 158 after hitting seventeen fours and a six.
Australia have won 12 of the last 13 Tests they have contested against West Indies. They hold the Frank Worrell Trophy - symbol of Test supremacy against West Indies - and they have not lost a Test series in the Caribbean since 1991.
The second Test between the two sides starts on May 30 at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground in Antigua, and the third Test starts on June 12 at Kensington Oval in Barbados.
The Aussies also contest a Twenty20 International and five One-day Internationals. |
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