Born: 19 December 1974
State: Tasmania
Test appearances: 63
Debut: v Sri Lanka 1995

There's a bit of debate going on as to whether Ponting should come in at number three or number four.

As an Australian I'm not too bothered - as long as he keeps scoring the runs.

Ponting plays his shots from the word go and once he gets going he is a handful.

He has struggled on occasions - the start of the last Ashes series being a case in point - but on the greater part he is fantastic at three… or should that be four?