Ponting to play in Caribbean T20 league Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting has been named as the first international player who will take part in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL). The 38-year-old, who retired from international cricket in December, will appear for the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League. He will then move on to English county side Surrey for the first two months of the county season before heading to the Caribbean for the T20 tournament in late July. "The West Indies has always been one of my favourite cricket destinations," Ponting said in a statement. The mix of entertainment and cricket is the perfect recipe for West Indian cricket fans as well as the rest of the world. Ponting will not find out which of the six sides - Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, St Lucia or Trinidad and Tobago - he will play for until May's draft. The CPL is scheduled to take place from July 29 to August 26. In 168 Tests, Ponting scored 13,378 Test runs, another 13,704 runs in 375 ODIs and 401 runs in 17 T20 internationals.