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Originally Posted by zaremba
Out of interest, SJS, why have you omitted all-rounders? It seems to me that the main difficulty with a bowler being captain is that he's got enough on his plate in the field already, since he has to focus on bowling / recovering. Surely this applies just as much to a Botham as to a Willis?
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I feel an all rounder (particularly a good batting all rounder) is able to think like a batsman more often and most of the time than as a bowler. I was reading Proctor's autobiography just the other day and he writes that he likes to think of himself as a batsman and thinks like one. Mind you most people will agree that Proctor, one of the great all rounders after Sobers, was a greater bowler than batsman. I think that does make a difference.
By the way, many people have written on this mater including Bradman in the
Art of Cricket recently reviewed by me on CW but one of the finest on the subject is from Brearley in his fascinating book
The Art of Captaincy. I hope you can read them clearly
