Ricky Ponting opens Twitter account with uncharacteristically sweet post, fans react

Former Australian captain and cricket legend Ricky Ponting finally joined Twitter on December 11. In this era of social media, fans love to connect with ir favourite players on ir favourite social media platform and Ponting's arrival was different. Check out first reactions.

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Ricky Ponting's sweet tweet

Ricky Ponting made his way to Twitter universe on December 11 and shared a sweet post to commemorate moment by posting pictures of him training his son Fletcher. According to tweet, this was Fletcher's first net session. Fletcher could be seen sporting a mini version of his far's iconic Kookaburra Kahuna bat in picture. Who kws? Maybe he will become someone who breaks his far's uncountable records. Here is Ponting's first tweet.

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Fans and fellow cricketers were overjoyed about Ricky's arrival as well, here are some of ir replies.

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Will Ponting have a smooth sailing Twitter journey or will he court a few controversies along way? Only time will tell.

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