Leading Test Captains - Ponting now second on the list
http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283746.html
Just look at the no. of tests won by Australia b/w Steve Waugh and Ponting (79) as opposed to no. lost (17). If you add Gilchrist’s 3 or 4 test wins as captain as well it completes an impressive picture of Australian domination in tests over the past decade
Chokers 
hah, they only added 126 runs to their day-4 score 
, they earned their title back “chokers”
The ‘Ponting Age’ has truly begun
http://content.cricinfo.com/rsavaus2009/content/current/story/394689.html
“It’s certainly a unique phase in my career as a captain,” Ponting said. "To have a number of debutants, and a number of inexperienced guys in the side, it’s something I haven’t been accustomed to in the majority of my career as a captain. I’ve said right from the start, that when these challenges come up and this transitional phase first started, I always looked at as being one of the most exciting little phases of my career.
“Being the captain of the side when I was, when we were so dominant, Test series and Test matches seemed to roll into one another. We were winning everything that came along and we were expected to win everything that came along. If you look at our group of players [now] … a lot of people around the world didn’t think that this was achievable.”
It has helped that Australia entered this match with an unchanged side for the first time in 16 Tests. Following the controversial home series against India in early 2008, the squad rarely looked settled throughout the remainder of the year. Now Ponting is in charge of a group of men who have been told their roles and are keen enough and capable enough to perform to specifications.
Players like Hughes, Hilfenhaus, Peter Siddle and Doug Bollinger could have ten-year careers ahead of them. They are without question benefiting from starting their careers under a leader who believes in them and is willing to persist with them. Five years into his captaincy, Ponting is finally starting to leave his own unique mark on the Australian team.