7 worst patches for legendary cricketers in Tests

4. Ricky Ponting

It was not very often that Ricky Ponting struggled to get runs

One of Australia's greatest batsmen and captains, Ricky Ponting, had a glittering career which saw him bring plenty of laurels to the country. Ponting is the second highest run-getter in Test cricket behind Sachin Tendulkar. Post a moderately successful start, the pugnacious Aussie pushed his cricket to another level and became one of the world's best.

There were times in Ponting's career, however, when he could not score runs with his regular fluency. The 2000/01 season saw the stylish right-hander run into one such poor run of form. In 13 innings, Ricky Ponting was able to score only 259 runs at a disastrous average of 23.54 with just a couple of fifties to his name.