Ricky Ponting was not just into amassing hundreds in his heydays as a player, the two-time World Cup-winning former Australia captain has revealed that he also meticulously collected every bat with which he scored an international century, complete with the exact score and the name of opposition written on it by him.

The 49-year-old head coach of Delhi Capitals was one of the most feared big-hitters of his time. he was speaking at the DP World’s Beyond Boundaries initiative of handing out kits to young players in New Delhi.

Ponting scored 71 international hundreds, including 41 in Tests, before his career drew to a close in 2012.

“Believe it or not, I have still got my first bat at my home. It still has all the stickers and everything on it. We literally have had probably a thousand bats by now, some are more special than others.

“I kept every bat I scored an international hundred with and I write on it, the score and who it was against,” Ponting revealed.