Sehwag, Inzy scorned captain Smith

klub123 · October 22, 2005, 5:44pm

Re: Sehwag, Inzy scorned captain Smith

AGREED !!!

brahmachari99:

That’s what you get when you have a junior leading a side. A captain should earn respect from his teammates first, with both his on-field and off-field performances and attitude. What’s Smith’s achievement in the 2-3 years he has been in the international cricket? Smith was barely out of his diapers when Inzimam was helping Pakistan win a World Cup title. In the last few years of his illustrious career, the last thing Inzi needs is having a 23 yr old kid calling him a “boy” or telling him to be a 12th man.

First Smith drops Shoaib Akhtar from the side, and then tries to keep Inzi out also? Why was Shoaib dropped if he was considered good enough by the ICC to be both in the ODI and Test teams? If performance in the ODI’s was a criteria, then Brian Lara wasn’t worthy of even being the waterboy. If the overall record against Australia carried weight, then Shoaib has a pretty good record against Australia too.

And if Graeme Smith can’t understand what Inzi says then that’s Smith’s problem. Inzi can understand him just fine, why can’t Smith understand Inzi? A captain should have the ability to communicate with his people. Inzimam’s boys in Pakistan sure can understand him pretty well. I am sure if Inzi were the captain of this ICC side, and Smith was under him, he’d still be ridiculing Inzi by saying how no-one could understand a word the captain was saying.

ICC should learn a lesson and appoint a captain who’s good enough to earn his teammates’ respect