What makes a Great Captain? One PakPassion.net member writes the following: pakpassion.net/ppforum/showthread.php?t=184101 I want you to explain captaincy and leadership in cricket in your own words based on different factors not stats only or by by saying Captain A is better than Captain B because he got a better W/L ratio... If you want you can pick any captain from past or present for example Sobers, Brearley, Llyod, Imran, Border, Taylor, Waugh, Ponting, Dhoni or anyone to explain your points lets have a healthy debate instead of another derailed thread... I want to include some words by different captains here... A captain must make every decision before he knows what its effect will be, and he must carry the full responsibility, not whether his decision will be right or wrong, but whether it brings success : Don Bradman Some of the great players havent been great captains because they havent been able to understand the struggle. You have to have an empathy for other players : Mike Brearley Batting captains never had a clue about bowlers. Most captaincy is done on the field. As a bowler I was far better equipped to deal with that than batting captains. The only batting captain I rated was Ian Chappell. He had a very good cricket mind and could deal with bowlers well. Apart from him, very few were good because they didnt understand bowlers. Because I was a bowling captain, I taught Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis from scratch. They had hardly played any first-class cricket and I would tell them what to do every ball because I had been through the process myself. I would set their fields and I would tell them what to think : Imran Khan The captain has to pull together ten different individuals with contrasting personalities and personality traits and get them all going in the same direction by treating them equally but differently : Steve Waugh #cricket
Posted on: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:00:01 +0000
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