List of international cricket centuries by Ricky Ponting
Introduction Ricky Ponting has scored 71 centuries in international cricket.|alt=A man stands in front of a brick wall; he is wearing a cap.Ricky Ponting is a retired Australian cricketer and former captain of the Australia national cricket team. He has scored centuries (100 or more runs) on 41 occasions in Test cricket and 38 times in One Day International (ODI) matches, both of which are Australian records. In Test matches, Ponting has scored hundreds against all Test playing countries. He is third (41) in the list of Test century-makers, behind Sachin Tendulkar (51) & Jacques Kallis (45). Ponting's first Test century was achieved against England at Headingley in 1997, when he scored 127.His highest innings is 257, scored against India in late-2003 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Ponting, among 41 centuries, has scored 6 double centuries, while his Test centuries have been made at 21 cricket grounds, including 15 at venues outside Australia. Ponting has been dismissed four times in the nineties, along with 96 on his Test debut. Ponting has scored centuries in both innings of a Test three times, equalling the record set by Sunil Gavaskar. This included a century in each innings of his 100th Test match thus becoming the only player in history to achieve that feat. In that match he also guided Australia to a successful run chase against South Africa on the final day. In 2006, Ponting scored seven centuries, the most by an Australian in a year.In ODIs, Ponting has scored 30 centuries against 11 opponents. He has scored centuries against all cricketing nations that have permanent One Day International status and is the first ever batsman in the world to achieve this feat in ODI cricket history. His first ODI century was against Sri Lanka in the ninth match of the Benson & Hedges World Series, held in the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1996.His highest ODI score is 164, which he scored against South Africa at the Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg in 2006.This propelled Australia to a new ODI world record score, although this mark lasted only a few hours before South Africa overhauled their target in the last over of the match. Ponting is third in the list of century-makers, behind Tendulkar (49) and Kohli (44). Ponting has scored 12 centuries at home grounds and 16 centuries at away or neutral venues. Seven centuries were hit at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. He has been dismissed four times in the 90s. Ponting previously held the highest score in a World Cup final with 140 not out against India in 2003, before it was broken by Adam Gilchrist in 2007.He has scored five World Cup centuries, along with Kumar Sangakkara, both are behind Tendulkar with six. His 145 against Zimbabwe in 1998 equalled Dean Jones' Australian record score, but this was surpassed in early-1999 by Adam Gilchrist's 154.In September 2009, Ponting retired from Twenty20 international (T20I) cricket, failing to score a century in a T20I match. However, in the first International played, he hit 98 not out against New Zealand in Auckland.Ricky Ponting has scored hundreds at each of the six prominent cricketing venues in Australia in both Tests and ODIs and is the only Australian to do so.Ponting and Shane Warne during the 2006–07 Ashes series. The series saw Ponting score two centuries.|alt= A ground with two sportsman playing cricket, with a boundary rope in the background
Key * *  Remained not out*   Man of the match*   Captain of Australia in that match* (D/L)  The result of the match was based upon the Duckworth–Lewis method
Test cricket centuries +Test centuries scored by PontingScoreAgainstVenue 1   127    6  2  4/6   Headingley, Leeds  Away    Won   2   105    6  1  1/3   Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne  Home    Drawn   3   104    6  1  3/4   Kensington Oval, Bridgetown  Away    Lost   4   105*    6  1  3/3   Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo  Away    Drawn   5   197    6  2  3/3   WACA, Perth  Home    Won   6   125    6  1  1/3   Adelaide Oval, Adelaide  Home    Won   7   141*    6  2  3/3   Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney  Home   Won   8   144    3  1  4/5   Headingley, Leeds  Away    Lost   9   157*     3  1  2/3   Bellerive Oval, Hobart  Home    Drawn   10   100*    3  4  2/3   Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town  Away    Won   11   141    3  1  1/3   Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo  Neutral    Won   12   150    3  1  3/3   Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah  Neutral    Won   13   123    3  1  1/5   The Gabba, Brisbane  Home    Won   14   154     3  2  2/5   Adelaide Oval, Adelaide  Home    Won   15   117    3  2  1/4   Bourda, Georgetown  Away    Won   16   206    3  1  2/4   Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain  Away    Won   17   113    3  1  3/4   Kensington Oval, Bridgetown  Away    Won   18   169     3  2  2/2   Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney  Home    Won   19   242    3  1  2/4   Adelaide Oval, Adelaide  Home    Lost   20   257    3  2  3/4   Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne  Home    Won   21   207     3  2  3/3   Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney  Home    Won   22   105      3  2  3/3   Eden Park, Auckland  Away    Won   23   156      3  4  3/5   Old Trafford, Manchester  Away    Drawn   24   149      3  1  1/3   The Gabba, Brisbane  Home    Won   25   104*      3  3  1/3   The Gabba, Brisbane  Home    Won   26   117     3  1  2/3   Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne  Home    Won   27   120      3  2  3/3   Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney  Home    Won   28   143*      3  4  3/3   Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney  Home    Won   29   103     3  1  2/3   Kingsmead, Durban  Away    Won   30   116     3  3  2/3   Kingsmead, Durban  Away    Won   31   118*     3  4  1/2   Fatullah Osmani Stadium, Fatullah  Away    Won   32   196      3  1  1/5   The Gabba, Brisbane  Home    Won   33   142      3  2  2/5   Adelaide Oval, Adelaide  Home    Won   34   140     3  2  4/4   Adelaide Oval, Adelaide  Home    Drawn   35   158     3  1  1/3   Sabina Park, Kingston  Away    Won   36   123    3  1  1/4   M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore  Away    Drawn   37   101     3  1  2/3   Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne  Home    Lost   38   150      3  2  1/5   Sophia Gardens, Cardiff  Away    Drawn   39   209      3  1  3/3   Bellerive Oval, Hobart  Home    Won   40   134    4  2  2/4   Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney  Home    Won   41   221    4  1  4/4   Adelaide Oval, Adelaide  Home    Won
One Day International centuries alt=A man in a cricket uniform swinging the bat at a sports ground. A crowd watches in the background.+ODI centuries scored by PontingScoreAgainstVenue 1   123    4  1  89.13   Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne  Home    Lost   2   102    3  1  91.07   Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur  Neutral    Lost   3   100    3  1  87.71   Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne  Home    Lost   4   145    3  1  91.77   Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi  Neutral    Won   5   124*     3  2  96.12   Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore  Away    Won   6   115    3  1  95.04   Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne  Home    Won   7   101    3  1  92.66   Indira Priyadarshini Stadium, Visakhapatnam  Away    Won   8   102     3  2  87.93   County Ground, Bristol  Away    Won   9   129      3  1  102.38   Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein  Away    Won   10   119     3  1  96.74   Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne  Home    Won   11   106*      3  2  109.27   Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne   Home    Won   12   114      3  1  104.58   SuperSport Park, Centurion  Neutral    Won   13   140*      3  1  115.70   Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg  Neutral    Won   14   101      3  1  85.59   Marrara Oval, Darwin  Home    Won   15   108*     3  1  104.85   M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore  Away    Won   16   115      3  1  112.74   Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne  Neutral    Won   17   141*      3  1  111.02   McLean Park, Napier  Away    Won   18   111    3  2  96.52   Lord's, London  Away    Won   19   124     3  1  97.63   Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney  Home    Won   20   164      3  1  156.19   Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg  Away    Lost   21   111      3  1  90.98   WACA, Perth  Home    Won   22   104      3  2  92.03   Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne  Home   Won   23   113      3  1  121.50   Warner Park, Basseterre  Neutral    Won   24   107*      3  2  99.07   Adelaide Oval, Adelaide  Home   Won   25   134*      3  1  100.75   Bellerive Oval, Hobart  Home    Won   26   124     3  1  93.23   Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney  Home    Won   27   126      3  2  115.59   Trent Bridge, Nottingham  Away    Won   28   111*     3  2  96.52   SuperSport Park, Centurion  Neutral    Won   29   106*       3  1  94.64   The Gabba, Brisbane  Home    Won   30   104     3  1  88.13   Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad  Away    Lost
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