Team India’s former opening batter Gautam Gambhir is known for his bold opinions and has come up with a strong statement drawing a comparison between Rohit Sharma and Ricky Ponting.
Gambhir believes Rohit Sharma is a better player compared to Ponting as the latter has a mediocre record in the subcontinent conditions.
Gautam Gambhir ranks the Indian skipper higher than Ricky Ponting
Rohit Sharma is considered as one of the finest batters of the modern day generation as the Indian skipper has already scored 29 tons converting three of them into double-hundred. Now, former opener Gautam Gambhir has come up with an explosive remark rating Rohit higher than Ponting.
“The surprising fact is that in the last four or five years he has gotten this many hundreds. Rohit Sharma before the last five-six years was not this consistent. He definitely got about 20 hundreds in the last five-six-seven years,” Gambhir said on Star Sports.
“He is a better player than Ricky Ponting because Ricky has got a sh** record in the subcontinent,” the former Indian opener further added.
Talking about the statistics of both the batters, Rohit currently has 29 hundreds and 9537 runs at an average of 48.91 in 237 ODI games. Ricky Ponting, on the other hand, finished with 30 centuries and 13704 runs in 375 matches at an average of 42.
Rohit Sharma’s brilliance is shown by his conversion rate as he is known for his ‘daddy hundreds’ with 264 runs as his highest score. Moreover, Rohit batted in the middle order till 2013 before MS Dhoni sent him as an opener in the 2013 Champions Trophy. He scored most of his 29 tons in the next 5-6 years as his brilliant consistency helped him score at an average close to 49 making him one of the most dangerous batters in today’s era.
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Even though Ponting could just hit six centuries in the subcontinent, his batting average remained 41 which is almost close to his overall career average. However, the fact which goes in Ponting’s favor is the presence of more bowler friendly pitches in his era while batters mostly get to play on flat tracks these days.
