Bill Ponsford
Cricketer (1900-1991) · Australia · On the map · Athletes · Died at 90
William Harold Ponsford MBE was an Australian cricketer. Usually playing as an opening batsman, he formed a successful and long-lived partnership opening the batting for Victoria and Australia with Bill Woodfull, his friend and state and national captain.
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Don Bradman Teammate at Australia national team, 1928-1934
Clarrie Grimmett Teammate at Australia national team, 1925-1934
Alan Kippax Teammate at Australia national team, 1925-1934
Bert Oldfield Teammate at Australia national team, 1924-1934
Vic Richardson Teammate at Australia national team, 1927-1934
Bert Ironmonger Teammate at Australia national team, 1928-1933
Tim Wall Teammate at Australia national team, 1929-1934
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Ponsford in 1930
Ponsford c. 1930
Ponsford (middle row, second from left) with the 1930 Australian team selected to tour England
Bradman and Ponsford during the fourth Test against England in 1934
Statue of Ponsford outside the W.H. Ponsford Stand at the MCG
Ponsford (front row, left) wearing the Big V of the Victorian baseball team at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1919. His future Test cricket teammate, Jack Ryder is seated directly behind him.![An innings-by-innings breakdown of Ponsford's Test match batting career, showing runs scored (red bars) and the average of the last 10 innings (blue line). Blue markers signify an innings that ended not out.[112]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Bill_Ponsford_Graph.png/500px-Bill_Ponsford_Graph.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
An innings-by-innings breakdown of Ponsford's Test match batting career, showing runs scored (red bars) and the average of the last 10 innings (blue line). Blue markers signify an innings that ended not out.[112]Awards
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Ponsford is the only player to twice break the world record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket; Ponsford and Brian Lara are the only cricketers to twice score 400 runs in an innings. Ponsford holds the Australian record for a partnership in Test cricket, set in 1934 in combination with Don Bradman - the man who broke many of Ponsford's other individual records. In fact, he along with Bradman set the record for the highest partnership ever for any wicket in Test cricket history when playing on away soil
