Ricky Ponting, Karen Rolton, Norm O'Neill in Hall of Fame

Bengaluru, February 10: Former Australia captains Ricky Ponting, Karen Rolton and Test batsman Norm O'Neill will be inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame.

The trio was announced as the 2017 inductees on Saturday and will be formally inducted at the Allan Border Medal on Monday (February 12), reports cricket.com.au.

Ponting, Australia's leading run scorer in Tests and ODIs, played 168 Tests, 375 ODIs and 17 T20Is for his country between 1995 and 2012.

The 43-year-old played his last match for his country at the WACA in December 2012, retiring with 13,378 Test runs and 41 centuries.

In the one-day arena, the Tasmanian scored 13,589 runs including 29 hundreds.

"Ricky Ponting is unquestionably one of the finest Test and one-day cricketers Australia has produced," Australian Cricket Hall of Fame Chairman Peter King said.

"That only he and Sachin Tendulkar have scored more than 13,000 runs in both Test and one-day cricket speaks volumes of his place in the game's history," King said.

Rolton was a key member of Australia's women team for more than a decade, playing 14 Tests, 141 one-day internationals and 15 T20Is between 1995 and 2009, scoring more than 5800 runs and posting 10 centuries.

A two-time World Cup winner (in 1997 and 2005), she remains the only woman to score a century in a World Cup final, having notched 107 in the 2005 decider against India in Centurion.

O'Neill, who passed away in 2008 aged 71, played 42 Tests for Australia - making his international debut aged just 21.

He scored 2779 runs including six centuries during his seven-year international career - the highlight of which was his 181 in the famous Tied Test against West Indies in 1960.