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Border at 50

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
Pratyush said:
As we do not sit in selection meetings how do you know he was a good selector or not when the decision is taken as a team 8-)
We don't - we know only that he was part of a team who were collevtively very poor.
 

Mister Wright

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Border IMO is Australia's best ever captain. He was a great batsman and bowled the occasional good spell with the ball.
 

vic_orthdox

Global Moderator
Without Border implementing his style onto the next generation of players, Australia would still be in the doldrums. It might have been over the top, but it is the willingness to do anything - even put (literally, according to some accounts of the Jones innings, ac) your life at risk for representing your country - that has made Australia the cricketing identity that it is today.

Its not hard to argue that the Tied Test + WC 87 were the turning points for the Australian side - both in India in the hardest (for Australia traditionally, as well as most foreign) conditions.
 

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