How good a captain is Hussey?

[open365]

Like Brian Lara?

Or Shaun Pollock?

Or Alec Stewart?

I concur that he seems to have all said attributes but so do many and don't make especially good captains (albeit none of the above 3 are perfect examples, because Stewart and Pollock were sacked in very harsh circumstances and Lara has, finally, made a decent fist of the captaincy).

But Hussey is just ace, you look at the guy and you see someone with no flaws and someone with such a great knowledge of cricket that he would automaticaly be a great leader and it suprises me that people say he's really not, though i'm not debating it as i haven't seen him captain.

 

[Richard]

You could say the same about those 3, too - none were exactly anything other than magnificent cricketers. Who certainly lost nothing in knowledge of the game.

 

[open365]

You could say the same about those 3, too - none were exactly anything other than magnificent cricketers. Who certainly lost nothing in knowledge of the game.

...Just as you could also say it for Hussey?

 

[Richard]

Err... yeah... exactly.

 

[adharcric]

 

[open365]

Um, Pakistan are ball altering drug taking cheats.

There, let's debate.

 

[Richard]

Eh?

Regardless of the truth or non-truth of such accusations, what does that have to do with what's just been said?

 

[Neil Pickup]

I've just wasted a minute of my life reading this. I think several thousand brain cells went deaded in the proses 2.

 

[Richard]

Well there are worse ways for them to die.

You could be hit on the helmet in the nets... by me... having just dared me to bowl a short one... you'd sure as never hear the last of that-'un.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Well there are worse ways for them to die.

You could be hit on the helmet in the nets... by me... having just dared me to bowl a short one... you'd sure as never hear the last of that-'un.

I'd need to have ducked into it. I don't duck; I throw myself on the deck.

 

[Richard]

You never know, it might have hit a ridge on the mat and spat up at that 5"6' (or whatever you are - you're barely taller than me) head of yours...

 

[Neil Pickup]

Wouldn't be fast enough to either get to me quick enough to catch me out for one, and even if it did by some bizarre fluke - like a late deflection off a passing seagull - it wouldn't kill owt, anyway.

 

[Richard]

That sounds like a challenge to me... and I think I deserve my turn after the instance of 2 seasons ago... when are the first spring nets again...

 

[Goughy]

Or Shaun Pollock?

One of the highest winning %ages of any captain in the history of Test cricket and better than the guy before him and the guy after him.

Was a good captain.

 

[Richard]

Was unfairly treated certainly but was he really a particularly good captain?

Honest question - I saw virtually nothing of his reign and always assumed him to be in the a-chimp-could-captain-them position. Coped superbly with Cronjegate, obviously, but that is a slightly different matter.

 

[Turbinator]

You never know, it might have hit a ridge on the mat and spat up at that 5"6' (or whatever you are - you're barely taller than me) head of yours...

Haha, midgets .

 

[Richard]

I'd personally not change my shortaessness for anything.

I genuinely like it, in preference to the idea of being taller, even if it does have a negative impact on my ambitions at the bowling-crease.

 

[adharcric]

Haha, midgets .

Aren't you 15?

 

[Goughy]

I'd personally not change my shortaessness for anything.

I genuinely prefer it, even if it does have a negative impact on my ambitions at the bowling-crease.

To what? You havent exerienced anything else. A preference would usually indicate at least some experience in the different areas.

Can I really say, I prefer living in the UK compared to Mongolia when I have never even been to Mongolia? Id say no.

I could guess, or predict but certainly making a statement with such a lack of evidence is dubious intellecual practice.

 

[adharcric]

Richard getting a taste of his own medicine.