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Rank New Zealand's Top 5 Test Skippers (vote for number 1)

Best NZ test Captain

  • Stephen Fleming

    Votes: 18 69.2%

  • Brendon McCullum

    Votes: 3 11.5%

  • Geoffrey Howarth

    Votes: 3 11.5%

  • Jeremy Coney

    Votes: 1 3.8%

  • John Wright

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Daniel Vettori

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 3.8%
  • Total voters
    26
  • Poll closed .
Bahnz

Bahnz

Hall of Fame Member
Days of Grace said:
Where do we stand on Ken Rutherford's captaincy (I started watching cricket full time from the 1993/94 tour of Australia) and why didn't he play post 1994/95? Too much baggage for Germon/Turner to deal with? Killed it in South Africa in the later part of the 1990s.
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He was dropped from the side after the catastrophe that was the 94/95 season. He always saw himself as a bit of an outsider in NZC circles, and I think he felt that he'd been made a scapegoat for New Zealand's poor performances that year, so he left. To be fair, in ODI's at least, he probably was right (averaged nearly 40 in the busy 94/95 season). As a captain, I don't remember any obvious mistakes, but it's fairly clear from Chris Cairns biography that a lot of the younger players really didn't like him very much (they all saw him as having usurped Crowe's rightful place as the captain), and I don't think he ever really had the favour of the teams that he captained. It certainly didn't help that New Zealand were playing truly awful cricket at the time. I guess Rutherford's experience just goes to show what an incredible captain Baz is to have achieved such magnificent results from similar circumstances.
 
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Jono

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
Random story. One of my best mates is a huge Ross Taylor fan, just loves him to bits. After that NZ win in SL back in 2013 he emailed me saying Ross is set to become NZ's best ever captain. I told him that was ridiculous.

One week later Rossco was sacked for Baz and I laughed in his face harder than anyone has ever done before.
 
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