Professional Practice and Communication

Running head: PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AND COMMUNICATION
Professional Practicing and Communication
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Workshop 2
Q.1
The famous Australian sporting figure to be researched in this question is Ricky Ponting.
He is one of the most famous faces in Australian cricket and achieved several milestones in his
playing career. He was the captain of the Australian cricket team from 2003 to 2011. He was
famous in his nickname of ‘Punter’. In his captaincy, Australia won two ICC World Cups in
succeeding tournaments in 2003 and 2007. The first one was held in South Africa and later one
was in West Indies (Cricketaustralia.com.au 2019). He has been one of the most recognized and
inspiring captains of the Baggy Green side. He belonged to Tasmania and played for them from
1992 to 2013. He also took part in several domestic cricket teams like Somerset, Hobart
Hurricanes, Mumbai Indians, Kolkata Knight Riders, Surrey and others (Kampmark 2013).
He is notable for his winning percentage as captain in international cricket. He has played
168 test matches for Australia in which he has scored around 13,378 runs. He has also played
375 One day international scoring 13,704 runs. He made his test debut in the year 1995 against
Sri Lanka and played his last test in the year 2012 against South Africa (Cricketaustralia.com.au
2019). He debuted in the one day internationals in the year 1995 against South Africa and played
his last one in 2012 against India. He led the Australian cricket team during a time that was
called the ‘golden era’ by managing players like Adam Gilchrist, Matthew Hayden, Shane
Warne, Glenn McGrath and others. In the year 2006, he received the highest rating as he became
the most coveted batsman after scoring highest test runs by a batsman in 50 years (Kampmark
2013).

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He was also the winning captain of the Australian cricket team that won ICC Champions
Trophy in 2006 and 2009. He is the second highest century scorer in the world ranking after the
legendary Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar (Cricketaustralia.com.au 2019). As per statistics, he
stands in tbe list of international cricketers who have scored more than 13000 test runs after
Sachin Tendulkar, Jacques Kallis and Rahul Dravid. Surely, he is one of the best to have adorned
the game in Australian colors. Ricky Ponting is now appointed as the assistant coach of
Australian cricket team with Justin Langer as the head coach.
Q.2
o If customers have to be informed about the new range of paper products in stock,
social media marketing strategy would be helpful enough. In this manner, the
service providers would be able to inform their customers through various social
media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in their official pages.
They can also opt to do this through putting up billboards in important places of
the city.
o A consultant appointed for efficient solid waste management will have to provide
all the necessary information to the local council. The consultant has to make a
survey of the city in all the streets and find out the areas where garbage disposal
facilities are not available (Kumaraswamy and Chitale 2012). Then he has to
report this to local council for allocating budget for the same. After making
arrangements in written manner, he should put up notices on walls seeking people
not to use plastics and report outcomes to local councils.
o The employees should be trained for emergency preparedness plan by making
them aware that they have to save lives of people at the first priority. They must