"He was going to be either the No.1 ranked Test batsman in the world" - Ricky Ponting

The former skipper of the Australian cricket team, Ricky Ponting has come up with an interesting statement on the Pakistan cricketer Babar Azam. According to Ricky Ponting, Babar Azam has all the requirements to become the no.1 batsman in Test cricket which is not far away from him.

Ricky Ponting has shared a lot of things on that topic to Isa Guha in the ICC's review show and said, "The only thing I am disappointed with is it is not a batter - how can these awards go to a fast bowler and not a batter? In all honesty, absolutely very well deserved.

It’s an awesome achievement. Now with him, Babar, and some of the other fantastic players they’ve got in that Pakistan line-up at the moment it makes for a really mouth-watering series coming up when the Aussies go there."

For this guy, the sky is the limit: Ricky Ponting:

"He (Babar Azam) has been great in T20I cricket in the past as well, hasn't he? His white-ball cricket has been nothing short of breathtakingly good for the last four-five years. He's the same as Shaheen.

I don't get to see a lot of these guys outside of when they tour Australia, but when I saw Babar in the second innings in Brisbane in the first Test against Australia, some of the shots that I saw him play on a fast bouncy Brisbane pitch - both on the front and back foot - against Hazlewood, Starc and Cummins - it was like, I have heard a lot about him and I have seen a fair bit of his while-ball stuff, but this guy is the real deal," said Ricky Ponting.

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"He has been great in T20I cricket in the past as well, hasn’t he? His white-ball cricket has been nothing short of breathtakingly good for the last four-five years. I think I said then that for this guy, the sky is the limit.

It’s only a matter of time I felt before he was going to be either the No.1-ranked Test batter in the world or certainly challenging for it. He’s probably challenging for that position right now and probably if he had played a few more Test matches through the last couple of years he’d be knocking the door down for that," he further added.