Ricky Ponting is an Australian first class cricket player, who is nowadays known not only in his home country, but also all around the world. R. Ponting has a net worth valued at more than 65 million dollars, so he is definitely one of the highest paid cricket players in history. Ricky Thomas Ponting is also a former captain of the Australian national cricket team, and this important role also led him to increase his net worth more than we could expect. We should take a closer look at the Ponting biography to understand how rich R. Ponting is.
Ricky Ponting Net Worth $65 Million
Ricky Thomas Ponting was born on December 19, 1974, in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. He is the eldest brother in the family and has three younger brothers and sisters. He started to play cricket at a very young age and even took part in the Northern Tasmania junior cricket competition. There he played against children under 13 years, of age and showed himself to be a talented cricket player. That’s how the net worth established by Ponting started to rise, but it was only the beginning of a great career.
Of course, we should mention that Ponting’s cousin, Greg Campbell, also had some influence on Ricky’s decision to become a cricketer. In the beginning of his career Ponting was earning net worth while playing successfully with the Tasmanian Tigers. Already in 1995 Ponting’s net worth increased as he began to play in the international leagues, including against India and South Africa. Later he became the captain of the national team, and until 2011 it was the main source of the net worth earned by Ricky.
R. Ponting has published many books about cricket. Together with such people as Brian Murgatroyd and Peter Staples, Ricky has written nine books: the first one was released in 1998. After a long gap another book was released and entitled “Ricky Ponting’s World Cup Diary”. Then, after publishing “My First Year” and “Ashes Diary”, the “Captain’s Diary” series started. The most recent book was published in 2013 by Harpersports and entitled “Ponting: At The Close Of Pay”. All these books show the experience of Ricky Ponting and can be considered as the diary of modern cricket as well as of a cricketer. These books added a huge sum to the overall amount of Ponting’s net worth, so there is no wonder that today R. Ponting earns so much money.
Talking about R. Ponting as a captain of Australian, we can sum up everything by the fact that he did this job very well and became admired among the other players. He is known to be a captain who has the ability to make the team more united, but still, some people admit that Ponting had no great imagination and could have given more freedom to the other players. Still nowadays we all admit Ricky Ponting has been one of the greatest cricket players of all time, and there is no doubt that Ponting’s net worth was earned absolutely fairly thanks to his great abilities as a player.
