Australia’s best recruiter? An uneven playing field

The recent retirement from test cricket of Ricky

Ponting set off another round of those periodic debates about where

Ponting ranks in Australia’s list of ‘best ever’ batsmen. Ponting’s test

batting average (51.85) certainly qualifies him to be among the elite

but is he the ‘next best after Bradman’ as some have speculated?

Comparing sportspeople across eras …