Hey all, im new. Anyway, 1st, I don't think pontz got complacent with his fielding, moved himself to slip, and became worse. Since Australia's brilliant slip cordent of M.Taylor, M.Waugh and S.Warne hav gone, ponting has been forced to put himself in there, so he hasn’t been able to be in covers and at point where people forget how good he was, with run outs and catches. But yes he has dropped off, a fair bit in some senses. It may be arragont in me saying so, but I am the biggest punter fan alive, and I feel as if me saying I know his game as well as anyone isn’t stupid.
When your as naturally brilliant as ricky ponting you're always going to do the occasional miraculous thing, such as that catch off symonds to dismiss tendulkar, but he has dropped off for sure, when he 1st came on the scene he was absolutely amazing, but even catches that he is occasionally dropping now, a couple of years ago you just wouldn't see, if so not near as often. I'm not sure whether its a coincedence or not that it started happening around the time of captaincy, but lets not forget it wasn't long ago when people were argueing him to be better than the great J.Rhodes. Also I'll remind you that mark waugh went through a stage when he dropped catches as well, so hopefully punter pulls through and picks it up a bit!