ever wear the Baggy Green. He deserves to go out in style. The best and worst of 'Punter' June 1997: Ponting scores the first of his 41 Test centuries on his Ashes debut. A knock of 127 in defeat at Headingley in a dead-rubber cements the 22-year-old's place at No 6 for the Baggy Green. December 2003: By now a stalwart at No 3 in Steve Waugh's all-conquering side, Ponting posts what will remain a career-best 257 in the Boxing Day Test at Melbourne as India are defeated. January 2005: Ponting registers the fourth double-hundred of his career - he would go on to make two more - and his first century as Australia captain as he scores 207 in a win over Pakistan in Sydney. August 2005: Having been run out by substitute fielder Gary Pratt in the decisive fourth-Test defeat to England at Trent Bridge, Ponting reacts furiously. He is later fined 75 per cent of his match fee and goes on to become the first Australia captain to lose an Ashes series since 1987. January 2006: Ponting became the first player to score two centuries in his 100th Test as Australia clinched the series against South Africa with a thrilling final-day chase in Sydney. Ponting made 120 in the first innings and an unbeaten 143 in the second. November 2006: Ponting bludgeons 196 runs in the opening Ashes Test against England at Brisbane, setting a platform for his side to whitewash the tourists 5-0 and regain the