ATG Bad Captaincy Decisions

[andmark]

I can't remember who won the toss, but a funny tactical one involved England touring India in the 1980s. Botham says in one match, the pitch curators prepared a seaming wicket with little turn. Yes, England found an English wicket thousands of miles away.

 

[SteveNZ]

Garry Sobers' declaration here - I've given up trying to defend him on it

Wow. Can only imagine because it was a stalemate at 0-0 and they got bored. Clearly a good deck and they give England that chase? And I know it was before ODI cricket, but the lack of effort in setting a target with any urgency doesn't seem to be present...

 

[Burgey]

lets cheat guys ponting/border/waugh/smith

Has anyone else noticed, as difficult as it is to believe, that Daemon is actually becoming less coherent?

 

[Burgey]

With Gulbadin Naib having just played an instrumental part in allowing Pakistan beat Afghanistan, by not only questionably bowling himself, but bowling rubbish too, what other terrible moves by captains (any format) spring to mind?

It's the worst piece of captaincy I've seen, not just because of the decision to revert to seam bowling when spin was working, but because it involved bowling himself. It was beyond bad and was actually delusional.

 

[wpdavid]

I can't remember who won the toss, but a funny tactical one involved England touring India in the 1980s. Botham says in one match, the pitch curators prepared a seaming wicket with little turn. Yes, England found an English wicket thousands of miles away.

Maybe it was the one-off test in 1980, where Botham took a 10for and hit a century after our top order had failed.

Talking of England in India, I think it was the first test in 1992/93 when we went in with only one spinner compared to India's three. You can probably guess how that one turned out.

 

[fredfertang]

Wow. Can only imagine because it was a stalemate at 0-0 and they got bored. Clearly a good deck and they give England that chase? And I know it was before ODI cricket, but the lack of effort in setting a target with any urgency doesn't seem to be present...

This is the story, as I saw it ten years ago anyway

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Steve Smith not enforcing the follow on and therefore letting Anderson pick up a thoroughly undeserved 5for at Adelaide 2017. Terrible captaincy that

 

[OverratedSanity]

The game was far gone anyway.

England were leading by 250-odd runs with 5 wickets in hand when MSD brought Raina into the attack.

So what you're saying is, Dhoni decided to give up when defeat was likely but not certain. How strange.

 

[Malcolm]

So what you're saying is, Dhoni decided to give up when defeat was likely but not certain. How strange.

I was actually arguing against VCS. India was still in the game and Dhoni messed it up.

 

[morgieb]

Steve Smith not enforcing the follow on and therefore letting Anderson pick up a thoroughly undeserved 5for at Adelaide 2017. Terrible captaincy that

May not have even been the worst bit of captaincy in that game - Root sending Australia in a total prank decision.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

May not have even been the worst bit of captaincy in that game - Root sending Australia in a total prank decision.

Fair point, wasn't a good decision that. The ball was doing a bit, but nothing massive, Anderson and Broad were both too short early on. Not bright captaincy

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Not sure it was a “prank” though.