If you bowl anything halfway down the wicket it's like feeding fodder to cattle. Ponting picks up length that split second quicker than most, an ability he had even while at school.
He came out of the academy with a great reputation. Australia's legendary wicket-keeper Rodney 'Bacchus' Marsh positively raved about him.
"If he [Ponting] plays to his potential, he will to be revered like Sir Donald Bradman or Sachin Tendulkar."
On his Test debut in 1995 against Sri Lanka, he walked out to the middle wearing his baggy green and not a helmet. A sign of the supreme confidence he had in his ability. He was dismissed for 96.
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