First Ashes Test
After scratchy form through 1997, Ponting was selected for that year’s Ashes tour of England, but did not play in any of the three preceding ODIs.
He was not selected for the first three Tests; England won the first, Australia the third, and the second was drawn.
Ponting was given three one-dayers and First-Class match against Glamorgan to try and push his case for a Test inclusion
In his first Ashes Test, Ponting score his first Test century (127, batting at No. 6) as he played the last three Tests and ended the series with 241 runs at 48.20.
At the time Australia had a policy of the selecting the same team for ODIs, so Ponting only played in three ODIs in early stages of the 1996–97 season in Australia, scoring 68 runs at 22.66 in December 1996 before being dropped.
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