Watch: When Ishant Sharma bowled a ripper to clean up Ponting

Watch: When Ishant Sharma bowled a ripper to clean up Ponting: The 6 feet 4 inches lanky Indian fast bowler Ishant Sharma is epitomized as one of the most talented pacers in India in the last decade or so. With a rhythmic run-up and high arm action he loves to hit the deck hard, bends his back more often to get the bounce and extracts whatever he can from the track. With time he has grown in stature and now is the pace-spearhead of the inexperienced Indian pace attack.

Throughout his career Ishant has troubled some of the big names of the game who have found him to be an extremely difficult puzzle to solve. Today, we will talk about Ishant’s favorite bunny Ricky Ponting. Right from the Australian tour he had troubled Punter to the hilt who was regarded as one of the greatest batters of the game. The sight of Ishant’s menacing spell to Ponting at Perth was as exhilarating as anything can be on the cricket field. But many detractors complained that it was not Ishant’s class but it happened due to the fact that the pitch is the fastest in the world.

For all those this video is an illustration of how good Ishant was against Ponting even on Indian pitches. This particular match was played at Mohali. On this wicket, Ishant pitched the ball around the off-stump, it tailed in and it castled out Ponting’s defence to hit the off-stump. He was early into the shot and got committed to playing forward and the ball, beat his defences, found the gap between his bat and pad to hit the stumps.

Ponting was devastated at the sight and couldn’t believe what had just happened while Ishant was over the moon. With the wicket Sharma got him out for the 5^th time in as many matches at that juncture of time.

Watch: When Ishant Sharma bowled a ripper to clean up Ponting: