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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 188. Chapters: Ricky Ponting, Steve Waugh, Bob Simpson (cricketer), Greg Norman, John Farnham, Olivia Newton-John, Jack Brabham, Graham Kennedy, Barry Humphries, Alan Jones (radio broadcaster), Allan Border, Rolf Harris, Ben Gascoigne, Jimmy Little, Margaret Court, Reg Sprigg, Lester Brain, Dick Smith (entrepreneur), Clifton Pugh, Les Murray (poet), Peter Carey (novelist), Phil Koperberg, Grace Cossington Smith, Phillip Adams, Robert Hughes (critic), Graeme Bell, Ross Garnaut, Neville McNamara, Elizabeth Jolley, Charles N. Perkins, Ronald N. Bracewell, Warren Bonython, Marjorie Barnard, Garry McDonald (actor), Bob Day, Alan Gilbert (academic), Slim Dusty, Bob Collins (politician), William Wentworth (Australian politician), Joan Carden, Thomas Keneally, Robert Hughes (composer), Gary Gray (Australian politician), Rob Borbidge, Mark Kelly (general), Ita Buttrose, Jim Molan, John Robert de Laeter, Renfrey Potts, Leo McKern, Morris West, Barry Jones (Australian politician), Reg Livermore, Rod Eddington, Shirley Strickland, Duncan Lewis, Mark Evans (general). Excerpt: Ricky Thomas Ponting AO (born 19 December 1974), nicknamed Punter, is an Australian former Test cricketer, and former captain of the Australia national cricket team between 2004 and 2011 in Test cricket and 2002 and 2011 in One Day International cricket. He is a specialist right-handed batsman, slips and close catching fielder, as well as a very occasional bowler. He represents the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian domestic cricket, the Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash League, and played in the Indian Premier League with the Kolkata Knight Riders in 2008. He is widely considered by many to be the best batsman of the modern era, along with Sachin Tendulkar of India and Brian Lara of West Indies. On 1 December 2006, he reached the highest rating achieved by a Test batsman in the last 50 years. Ponting made his first-class debut for Tasmania in November 1992, when just 17 years and 337 days old, becoming the youngest Tasmanian to play in a Sheffield Shield match. However, he had to wait until 1995 before making his One Day International (ODI) debut, during a quadrangular tournament in New Zealand in a match against South Africa. His Test debut followed shortly after, when selected for the first Test of the 1995 home series against Sri Lanka in Perth, in which he scored 96. He lost his place in the national team several times in the period before early-1999, due to lack of form and discipline, before becoming One Day International captain in early-2002 and Test captain in early-2004. After being involved in over 160 Tests and 370 ODIs, Ponting is Australia's leading run-scorer in Test and ODI cricket. He is one of only three players in history to have scored 13,000 Test runs. Statistically, he is the most successful captain of all time, with 48 victories in 77 Tests between 2004 and 31 December 2010, while as a player he is also the only cricketer in history to be involved in 100 Test victories. On 29 November 2012 Ponting announced his retirement from Test cricket, the d
