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Ponting overtakes Border

AFP, Birmingham
Australia captain Ricky Ponting overtook Allan Border as his country's leading run-scorer in Test cricket on the second day of the third Ashes Test against England here on Friday.
Ponting went into this match needing just 25 runs to surpass former captain Border's mark of 11,174 runs and move up into third place in the ail-time list of Test runscorers behind Sachin Tendulkar (12,773) and Brian Lara (11,953).
The Tasmanian, resuming on 17 not out here at Edgbaston, required just eight more runs Friday and an uncertain clip off his legs for three off fast bowler Andrew Flintoff saw him to the record in 22 fewer matches than the 156 it had taken Border to compile his career total.
However, on 38, he became Graham Onions's third wicket Friday when he mishooked a bouncer from the Durham quick through to wicketkeeper Matt Prior.
His exit left Australia struggling at 163 for four after Ponting himself had won the toss and elected to bat on Thursday.
Ponting, speaking before this match, had made it clear that, with Australia 1-0 down in the Ashes with three to play, his focus was on team success not individual glory.
"I know about it," Ponting said of the record to reporters here Wednesday. "I have known about it since the beginning of the series.
"I have bigger fish to fry than that right at the moment. But, look hopefully it comes. It would be nice to get it out of the way in the first innings of this
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game and put that behind us.
"Twenty-five runs is not what 1 am after in this game, I am after k big score."
But for that Ponting, who made a superb century in the drawn first Ashes Test in Cardiff, will have to wait until at least the second innings.
The fact the 34-year-old Ponting has played in the same era as India's Tendulkar and now retired West Indies star Brian Lara, allied to Australia's general dominance of Test cricket in that period, has tended to obscure his greatness as a batsman.
Yet Ponting's average is higher than both that of Tendulkar and Lara while, when it comes to Test centuries, he is only four behind Tendulkar'sworld record of42.