Edited sentence: He has scored over 11,000 Test runs at an average near 57, but since the February 2002 tour of South Africa (when he was elevated to the ODI team captaincy) he has scored 25 of his Test centuries and averaged above 74, leading to comparisons with Sir Donald Bradman.He is also the third fastest batsmen ever to reach 10,000 runs in Test matches.He is the only cricketer to have twice scored more than 1500 runs in Test matches in a calendar year (2003 and 2005) and on 3 December 2006 overtook Steve Waugh as the leading Australian century maker with 33 Test centuries.He now has 38 and lies second in highest number of Test centuries in the history of cricket, four behind world leader Sachin Tendulkar.Ricky Ponting is considered one of the finest batsmen in the history of the game, and is currently ranked 18th in ODI's and 6th in Test Cricket