AUSTRALIA
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Ricky Ponting is the highest run scorer for Australia across all formats so far. He has scored 27,483 runs in 560 matches at an average of 45.95 and a strike rate of 68.48. Ponting has 71 centuries and 146 half-centuries to his name.
His career-best score across all formats came against India at Melbourne on 26th December 2003, when he scored 257 in a Test match.
He announced his retirement from international cricket on 29th November 2012.
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