Recalling about his stunning 140 in the 2003 World Cup final, the then Australia captain Ricky Ponting said that he preferred an all-round attack against India instead of batting through the innings for a total of 300. It was the 17th anniversary of that historic final on Sunday which Australia won by 125 runs and became world champions for the third time. They put up a huge total of 359/ 2 in 50 overs.

“In the second drinks break, Australia were two down with 15 overs to go, I told the 12th man tell the boys to be ready because I am going to go for everything, right here, right now. If it comes off we are going to get a huge score. I am not going to be happy with batting through and getting to 300 against that Indian attack. If I go from now and it comes off, we are going to post a massive score,” Ricky Ponting told in a video uploaded by cricket.com.au as well.

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Ricky Ponting also shared how he has asked Damien Martyn if he would be able to play since he had a finger injury. Martyn remained unbeaten on 88 in the final and supported Ponting pretty well in the game as well.

“I had great in the guys coming behind me and we still had Lehmann, Bevan, Symonds. I told him ‘look me in the eye and tell me if you are right to play’. I wanted to Martyn to play in the World Cup, he is such a good player, such a good player of spin,” he shared.

“Given we’ve all got a bit of time on our hands as we stay at home, thought I’d go through what I’ve kept from my career and share some of it with everyone on a regular basis- this is the bat I used in the 2003 World Cup final,” Ricky Ponting shared on Twitter.