5 best Australian silly point / short leg fielders of all time

#2 Ricky Ponting

Ricky Ponting is among the greatest batsmen to have ever played the game, one of the most successful captains ever and quite clearly one of the best fielders that the game has ever seen.

Ponting was among that rare category of fielders who could field anywhere and when it came to close-in fielding, it was at the silly point that he excelled.

Ponting possessed all the qualities that one would expect from a silly point fielder. He could anticipate how the batsman was going to play, he had stunning reflexes to throw himself in any direction from a standing position and last but certainly not the least by any means, he was a superb one-handed catcher.

The last bit made him a deadly fielder and for years, Ponting's exploits at the silly point made batsmen a bit nervous when Shane Warne used to bowl and during his career, he came up with some absolutely stunning catches.