Good Captain but Bad Player VS Bad Captain but Good Player

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If you have to choose between a Good Captain but Bad Player VS Bad Captain but Good Player, whom would you chose and why ?

Basically I am talking about Ganguly and Inzimam.

While Ganguly has become a waste of a spot of late, Inzimam performs with the bat on a consistent basis. But Ganguly is supposedly a better captain and strategist compared to Inzimam.

As far as I am concerned I dont care how great a captain is, if he does not perform well as a player he should be out of the team. Ganguly is going down the road of Mohd Azharuddin who became extremely unreliable as a batsman during his reign as the Indian captain (match fixing may have had something to do with it…but that is another story).

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^ I think a captain should should justify his place in team first by performing to his specialty.

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True that but for now atleast Ganguly's performance with the bat can go pretty unnoticed with the likes of dravid tendulkar sehwag laxman and co still around.

As for inzimam no one else in his team has been consistent except him. So he doesnt have the same luxury as ganguly.

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Cheegum question is not whether he has the luxury of performing good or bad. Question is who is better of the two: Inzi (Bad captain, good batsman) or Gangs (Good captain, bad player)? What would be your choice of the two in case you were to select a team and you have option of these two to be captain of that team?

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I would still select Inzi as Cap-10.
His efficiency in batting can over come his deficiencies as a Cap-10

Because Cap-10 can still get off field advice and some action correction. Whereas as a
Player/batsman cannot not be lifted from poor form when needed. :smokin:

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My thoughts are that captain of a team is a leader. Although you need good people skills, management skills and critical thinking skill to be a success as a leader but the most skill is leading from the front setting example by performance and Inzi have that Ganguly not so much. Inzo will learn by experience the skill to manage and lead but he definately has an advantage over Ganguly because he performs.

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The two oldest of test teams - England and Australia had a different approach to selecting captains. In the old days and to some extent in the present, England picked 'good thinkers' as captain no matter how useless he was with the bat or ball. Whereas Australia always groomed their top players into captains.

Both theories have it's pluses and minuses. Even Pakistani ex-captain in the 70's, Mushtaq Muhammad, was mainly in the team for being a good captain. His batting and bowling was quite mediocre.

I think it has to be a fine balance between the two attributes. But if he is not performing on the field and neither as a captain, then he gotta go.