- As a player, Ponting is the only cricketer in history to be involved in 100 Test victories. Ponting also holds the record to have been involved in the most ODI victories as a player, with 262 wins.
- Ponting is Australia's leading run-scorer in Test and ODI cricket. He is one of only four players (along with Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Jacques Kallis) in history to have scored 13,000 Test runs.
- First played international cricket for Australia in 1995.
- Wife, Rianna gave birth to the couples' first child, daughter Emmy Charlotte, on July 26, 2008 in Sydney.
- Ponting led Australia to victory at the 2003 and 2007 Cricket World Cups and was also a member of the 1999 World Cup winning team under Steve Waugh.
- Former coach of the Indian Premier League sides Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians. As a player, he was associated with the Kolkata Knight Riders.
- Led Australia to it's first test series win in India since 1969 during the 2004 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
- Became only the second captain after West Indies' Sir Clive Lloyd and third cricketer till then to score a century in the finals of a World Cup, compiling a match winning 140 in just 121 deliveries against India at Johannesburg in 2003. Is till date also one of the only three skippers to be awarded Man-Of-The-Match in the finals of a World Cup, the others being Lloyd (1975) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni(2011).
- Till date only the second skipper, since West Indies' Clive Lloyd, to have led his team to consecutive World Cup triumphs. Ponting accomplished this feat in the 2003 and 2007 editions encompassing 22 straight matches without a defeat.
- His favorite bowlers are West Indies' Curtly Ambrose and Pakistan's Wasim Akram. Explaining their distinguishing features, Ponting mentioned "Ambrose didn't concede runs, thereby forcing batsmen to commit errors and lose their wicket. Akram conceded runs as a part of his trap followed by an unplayable delivery which dismissed the batsman".
- His tally of 9458 runs in 107 tests during the 2000s is the highest for a batsman in any decade. [December 2022].
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