A report commissioned by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 2014 said the thickness of bats has increased by up to 22 millimetres in the past century and edges by almost 300 percent, meaning mis-hits can travel much further.
Despite those findings, the World Cricket Committee decided against placing any restrictions on bat sizes at a 2014 meeting.
"I think it will happen. I am going in a couple of weeks for a World Cricket Committee meeting and that will be one of the topics talked about," Ponting said at the Australian Cricket Society's annual dinner.
"I don't mind it (big bats) for the shorter versions of the game. I would actually say you've got a bat you can use in test cricket and a certain type of bat you can use in one-day cricket and Twenty20 cricket.
"The short forms of the game survive on boundaries – fours and sixes – whereas the test game is being dominated too much now by batters because the game is a bit easier for them than it was."