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How good a captain was Graeme Smith
- Thread starter kyear2
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Tactically aweful at the start of career. Graduated to mediocre by the end. So just poor to very poor on the whole.
A bad player manager at the start. Players that previous captains had worked with somehow needed to be dropped under him. Complaints throughout his career about this type of thing. Without seeing how previous captains have dealt with them, it's hard to work out how much latter career complaints was sour grapes from players who weren't up to snuff.
Role as a leader is very hard to estimate for people outside the team. He took RSA to seventh in ICC rankings, and first. Both were more due to the talent pool than his captaincy. A number of players said he was a great leader. Players he got along with tended to have much longer careers... So not sure how much this is worth.
A bad player manager at the start. Players that previous captains had worked with somehow needed to be dropped under him. Complaints throughout his career about this type of thing. Without seeing how previous captains have dealt with them, it's hard to work out how much latter career complaints was sour grapes from players who weren't up to snuff.
Role as a leader is very hard to estimate for people outside the team. He took RSA to seventh in ICC rankings, and first. Both were more due to the talent pool than his captaincy. A number of players said he was a great leader. Players he got along with tended to have much longer careers... So not sure how much this is worth.
CricAddict
International Coach
Graeme Smith and Dhoni are both great captains who are similar in the sense that they were made captains at a comparatively young age while there were experienced and reputed players already in the squad. And they both did manage them admirably and led the team to success and number one test ranking.
Slifer
International Captain
There was a game in the 1995 frank Worrell series in st Johns where Lara was ripping Australia apart. Taylor places I believe Boon in an unorthodox short leggish fielding position. Lara flicks Waugh and gets caught by Boon for 88. That catch for me, was one of the key points from that series. Mark Taylor was a genius of a captain. Anyone leaving him out of a top ten of greatest skippers need to look past just win loss.