Yeah I agree. Captains are always really reluctant to swallow their pride on this one if the batsman is farming the strike well anyway or the tailender looks comfortable in defence.yeah good post uvelocity. The problem is when captains (Dhoni, Yousuf and a few others) do it for far too long.
LuckInteresting question, which seems very divisive on CW.
Obviously it's easy to tell between a good captain and a bad one, but what facet of them do you notice the most? Inspired fields? The loyalty of your team? Leading by example with bat or ball?
Discuss.
Do you genuinely believe that some players are luckier than others?Luck
In the mid-to-late 70s everyone wanted a pair of the SP batting gloves. Coolest things going.I want a pair of those batting gloves next season.
Yep. If you are not lucky, we cannot use you as captain, I'm afraid.Luck
After that, man management.
After that, decision making.
Yep.Do you genuinely believe that some players are luckier than others?
Luck is an easy way to account for all the little unnoticed things they do right which add up. If someone's consistently lucky as a skipper then they're doing something right but no one can pin down what it is.Do you genuinely believe that some players are luckier than others?
It depends what you mean by luck. Mike Brearley is often called a great captain, but he had the second coming of Geoff Boycott, the emergence of Gower, the most gifted all-rounder ever and England's two leading wicket takers in history - plus played mainly against weakened opponents. A tad fortunate perhaps.......
Look, it really depends on the situation.. If the batsman is batting on say 5* and you push the field back just because he has no.9 batting with him, it has no logic really. It has a place when it is the no. 11 and he is not renowned for being able to stay there for too long and the batsman is batting reasonably well at the other end. At just about every other instance, it is a blunder of a tactic with very little logic behind it.Yeah I agree. Captains are always really reluctant to swallow their pride on this one if the batsman is farming the strike well anyway or the tailender looks comfortable in defence.
It has poor logic*Look, it really depends on the situation.. If the batsman is batting on say 5* and you push the field back just because he has no.9 batting with him, it has no logic really.
by that reasoning, Joni, every human thought is logic, either poor or sound or usual.It has poor logic*