Mumbai, October 21: He is chasing the batting benchmarks set by Sachin Tendulkar but Australian skipper Ricky Ponting is not sure whether he would achieve them and wants to focus on playing match-winning knocks for his team.
“It would be nice if he retires some time,” Ponting quipped.
“I was asked about this (chasing Tendulkars records) in South Africa. He’s been the benchmark for international players in the world,” he said at a media conference here today.
“I think he’s going into his 20th year in international cricket which in itself is a remarkable feat within itself.
The records he has set in Test and One-day cricket would be hard for anybody to tame down the track,” he added.
As far as he was concerned, Ponting said he would be happy to win more and more games for Australia with his bat.
–PTI