[QUOTE=rivera213;1906707]Whilst they're bowling they (hopefully) wouldn't concentrate on anything else. If you drop your concentration at international level then you'll get punished.[QUOTE]
I guess the same applies to batting as well. Even more critical are powers of concentration in that aspect.
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Just instinct I suppose. I just don't see temperamental, aggressive fast bowlers as potential captains. Spinners on the other hand, while aggressive in bowling, aren't in temperament (barring Harbajhan who I think would be possibly the worst choice for India captain after Yuvraj).
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Well, we can't say really, can we? For a long time, Ponting used to be the trouble kid in Australian ranks, and once he aged and was earmarked as captain, he blossomed splendidly into a good leader. Perhaps, Mitchell Johnson has it in him to be a future Aussie captain.
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I don't think Dhoni would do half as well with New Zealand's team as he has thus far with India. There are also a number of experienced players around him (Sehwag, Dravid, Tendulkar, Z.Khan, Laxman...) so he isn't short of opinion.
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However, he is the captain and the buck stops with him. Also, the team that he inherited from Kumble was more or less the same, and yet Kumble's India was not exactly setting the world on fire. Dhoni has won a T20 WC, 5 tests out of his 6 (would have been all 6 but for the weather in NZ), and ODI series in Australia as captain. And seniors like Tendulkar have come out in the open praising lavishly his captaincy skills. He also captained CSK to the IPL finals last year, and missed out just by a whisker. If all this is due to luck, then I would love to define captaincy as the art of using your luck.
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Murali may've done very well as captain 6 or 7 years ago, but he isn't an option now since he's obviously coming towards the conslusion of his (awesome) career.
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So true. Wish he got the command ahead of Jayawardena, who was not half bad either. But I guess Murali had a bigger claim than Atapattu or Jayasurya back then. Could be that he is from a minority (Tamil) segment.