Former Australian batter and World Cup winning captain Ricky Ponting revealed that he every bat that he has scored a century with in his collection. Cricketers have a lot of hobbies beside playing cricket and Ponting revealed that collecting bats was his hobby.
Ponting at DC’s helm
Ponting, who is in India as moment serving as a part of the coaching staff of IPL team Delhi Capitals, revealed that he still had the bat he had scored a century with against India in the ODI World Cup 2003.
The 49-year-old was speaking at the DP World’s Beyond Boundaries initiative of handing out kits to young players in Delhi.
Bats galore
“Believe it or not, I have still got my first bat at my home. It still has all the stickers and everything on it. We literally have had probably a thousand of bats by now, some are more special than others,” Ponting said, as quoted by PTI.
“I kept every bat I scored an international hundred with and I write on it, the score and who it was against of,” Ponting added.
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Away from common view
However, Ponting added that the bats are away from common view and kept in the garage.
“It’s not like it’s displayed in my house. I keep those in my garage,” he said.
Over the course of his brilliant playing career, which came to an end in 2012, Ponting scored 71 international hundreds, an incredible 41 of them in Tests.
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