What do you value in a captain?

[smash84]

yup....Dhoni is a very good man manager.....

 

[the big bambino]

I think he's a prime example of one of Goughy's maxims in his ability to work with a board.

 

[Hurricane]

I would have to think about my answer for International cricket but for club cricket in my experience captaining a team personal performances were the most important thing. We lost our first 8 games of the season while I did creative things with field placings and gave motivational speeches. Then I realised I was playing like crap. So I promoted myself to open and got us off to a good start for the rest of the season and we finished 9-9. In club cricket you can contribute most to the team performance by just playing well yourself *

*provided you are average in the other facets of captaincy and aren't a boob of a captain.

 

[smash84]

you mean that you are not misboob ul haq

 

[Jnr.]

Man management and luck are the most important aspects IMO

Yes. Agree on both points.

 

[Furball]

you mean that you are not misboob ul haq

Stunning contribution as always.

 

[smash84]

Stunning contribution as always.

quite ironic

 

[Гурин]

I would have to think about my answer for International cricket but for club cricket in my experience captaining a team personal performances were the most important thing. We lost our first 8 games of the season while I did creative things with field placings and gave motivational speeches. Then I realised I was playing like crap. So I promoted myself to open and got us off to a good start for the rest of the season and we finished 9-9. In club cricket you can contribute most to the team performance by just playing well yourself *

*provided you are average in the other facets of captaincy and aren't a boob of a captain.

I don't know how is it in NZ, but here, in club cricket, getting XI players all on time on the field on sundays is the most important, difficult and exhausting thing for any captain. Performances comes second, au pair with 'locker room' (which often is a bench next to the rope) peace. A thankless job if there's one, in which you try to be competitive while pleasing everybody, but hindsight complaining about you will still be the primary conversation every evening.

(And that's why I don't want to ever captain a cricket team)

 

[BoyBrumby]

What's Beanuad's quote?

“Captaincy is ninety percent luck and ten percent skill. But don’t try it without that ten percent.”

Sounds about right.

 

[Red]

Ian Chappell: Let captains do their job | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[Satyanash89]

"Good captaincy is like pornography; it's difficult to define but you know it when you see it."


Good stuff from Chappell, he seems genuinely ****ed off at the current state of captaincy in international cricket

 

[smash84]

yeah that is a good piece

 

[Jono]

"When a captain signals from the opening delivery that he's trying to win the Test match, there's an urgency on the field and an expectation in the stands. Conversely, when a captain pushes fielders back, allowing the batsman a single to attack a tailender, there's no logic to the ploy. Once a captain basically stops trying to dismiss a batsman, the fans might as well adjourn to the bar, because the contest is then like Monty Python's dead parrot - it has ceased to be."

Benchmark fuming as we speak.

 

[Red]

When I was interviewed for the Argus report in 2011, I said in part: "I don't think the current system allows you to captain Australia properly." "Why not," was the harrumphed response. "Because there are too many people to tell to get stuffed," I replied.

......

 

[benchmark00]

"When a captain signals from the opening delivery that he's trying to win the Test match, there's an urgency on the field and an expectation in the stands. Conversely, when a captain pushes fielders back, allowing the batsman a single to attack a tailender, there's no logic to the ploy. Once a captain basically stops trying to dismiss a batsman, the fans might as well adjourn to the bar, because the contest is then like Monty Python's dead parrot - it has ceased to be."

Benchmark fuming as we speak.

This sums up Chappell. Holy **** he's a useless ****.

"there's no logic to the ploy"

Really Ian?

Go **** yourself.

 

[Jono]

Love your work Benchy. You delivered in spades.

I don't actually agree with you on the whole re: the pushing back fielders thing, to me there are times it is a good idea and times it is a bad tactic - however to say it has "no logic" is absolutely ridiculous.

The logic is pretty simple actually - tailender is easier to get out so they will try and get the tailender on strike.

You can disagree with the tactic, but how the **** can you say it has no logic? Incredible.

I say this as someone who on the whole doesn't mind Chappelli.

 

[Spikey]

captains need good hustle.

 

[the big bambino]

It has no logic bcos at any other time you are trying to get the batsman out. At no other time does the fielding skipper decide which one of the 2 batsmen am I more likely to dismiss and then feed runs to the other. Just have some faith in your bowlers to dismiss any batsman who happens to be facing.

 

[smash84]

It has no logic bcos at any other time you are trying to get the batsman out. At no other time does the fielding skipper decide which one of the 2 batsmen am I more likely to dismiss and then feed runs to the other. Just have some faith in your bowlers to dismiss any batsman who happens to be facing.

 

[benchmark00]

It has no logic bcos at any other time you are trying to get the batsman out. At no other time does the fielding skipper decide which one of the 2 batsmen am I more likely to dismiss and then feed runs to the other. Just have some faith in your bowlers to dismiss any batsman who happens to be facing.

At any given time you're not one wicket away from the close of innings!!

Honestly, it is so silly for people to have that outlook on it.