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I don't think Inzi will be too happy playing under his own vice captain after being demoted.
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Offshoot of the problem I referred to in the other thread about the Pak team.
Yaar, yeh Pakistaniyon mein itni shaan kyon hoti hai...
Isn't Tendulkar playing just fine under Ganguly(even Dravid) , people whom he used to captain once.
Was it...Lee Germon...who was directly inducted into the NZ test team as a Captain... I think Pak needs to do something similar....
Pick a guy... who has a calm head...has leadership qualities...is a good communicator...and groom him to be the captain....
Hansie Cronje was being talked of as captaincy material even while he was playing his first test match.
I heard similar things being said of Taufeeq Umar....but his place in the side may not be guaranteed...if his performance in the just concluded series is anything to go by....
btw, How are Asim Kamal's personality traits...
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Isn't Tendulkar playing just fine under Ganguly(even Dravid) , people whom he used to captain once.
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It also depends on the person. Do you think Ganguly would be happy if he were dethroned and made to play under Dravid? I don't think so. I'm not saying that having this unprofessional attitude is okay but none of our players are as professional, selfless as Tendulkar or Dravid.
Hasan Raza, Mohd. Wasim were earmarked for leaderhip. But such are the ways of Pak cricket that both these batsmen were fighters and yet they're nowhere near the team even though we have only two batsmen of proven ability.
But I don't think selecting a player as captain is a good idea. Germon was a dismal failure wasn't he? Looked like a very, very ordinary player. You don't have to be and probably even shouldn't be the best player in the team to be skipper but you must command your place in the team to lead the team with any confidence.
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It also depends on the person. Do you think Ganguly would be happy if he were dethroned and made to play under Dravid?
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Ganguly wouldn't be happy - true and I am sure Tendulkar wouldn't have been happy also when he was demoted....but I do believe that Ganguly would not let his performance slip or try to scheme the downfall of the new captain....
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But I don't think selecting a player as captain is a good idea. Germon was a dismal failure wasn't he? Looked like a very, very ordinary player. You don't have to be and probably even shouldn't be the best player in the team to be skipper but you must command your place in the team to lead the team with any confidence.
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Yes Germon was pretty mediocre though he was the Captain for quite a while....but that is irrelevant....what I am trying to say is that NZ's situation then was same as Pak' situation today....I am talking about the TINA factor (There is no alternative i.e.). Reminds me also of England's captaincy crises in the 80s....Chris Cowdrey was brought from oblivion to lead the side...though he wasn't a big success too...
You are spot on about the fact that a player should not be made the captain just because he happens to be the best player in the team.... this is an oft-repeated mistake in the subcontinent....think Tendulkar/ Inzamam....
Now people are suggesting Youhana simply because he is the next best and experienced player after Inzy (and he happens to be the vice-captain)...but if the selectors dont take his personality/leadership traits into account.... the captaincy problem will remain. The selectors need to show some creativity here... the concern about ego of certain player(s) being hurt should not be a factor in their decision.
Bring back Moin Khan and make him the captain:k:
a perfect choice.
Inzi has been confirmed as captain for the rest of the year. Just heard it on sky news.
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**Inzi has been confirmed as captain for the rest of the year. Just heard it on sky news.*
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Almost a forgone conclusion, as I said in my previous post here. And a good one too. We need to build the team confidence, not shake them up every time we lose a series.
default yes...he's not the best captain, isn't performin the role as a captain 2 well either, but we don't really have a choice at the moment...don't think theres anyone else in the team who could lead it any better...
If you want to finish the career of a Pakistani cricketer, make him the captain and then fire him and make him play under someone who he actually chose as a rookie. This is absurd. There is no thought process in the minds of PCB management. Were they smoking hasish when they made him the captain?. This was a bad choice to begin with. He is lazy, laidback and it did work to keep the players in calm but lately he has been getting agitated easily and is not the same cool customer he used to be.
So, fire him. Make Taufeeq Umer the captain and destroy Pakistan cricket for another decade.
Morons!
Then they want to know why it's hard to be a Pakistani supporter. It is torture I tell you.
Tuesday, April 20, 2004 Home
Hitwicket: Shoaib, Inzi & Pak’s power struggle
Agha Akbar
This is not really a great time to be either a leading Pakistan cricketer or even being part of the cricketing establishment. As is the wont in such circumstances, the knives are out and disarray has followed defeat in Pakistan’s ranks; there is plenty of name-calling and passing of the buck. The slanging match between Inzamam and Shoaib Akhtar had started well before the curtain came down on the Rawalpindi Test, but its echo is still being heard across the country.
What Inzamam had accused Akhtar of — feigning injury to his left wrist and back to stay out of the field for the whole of Day Three at Pindi — is a prank neither new in cricket nor beyond Akhtar. Pakistan’s cricket history is replete with instances of players limping off the field or sitting out matches — or deliberately underperforming — to undermine a certain captain. In his time Sarfaraz Nawaz had transformed the practice to an art form and Wasim Akram has been accused of the same almost by all his captains.
Akhtar had a reason to go after Inzamam. The captain had had words with his personal friend and team trainer Tauseef Razzaq who, in a fit of pique, did not travel with the team to Rawalpindi from Lahore.
But the history between captain and star goes back farther. And at the root of it all are Akhtar’s own captaincy ambitions and his singular distaste for adhering to the commands of a skipper.
Akhtar in his own mind is an incomparable match-winner. To an extent that is true, a fact that statistics support. Pakistan have won a very high percentage of matches in which he has either played or performed well — nearly 50 per cent when he participates and even better when he takes five or more wickets. His contribution in Pakistan’s many victories after the 2003 World Cup has been quite significant. This has stoked his enthusiasm for captaincy even further.
And it is precisely this that makes Inzamam feel threatened, and he openly accused Akhtar of not just underperforming but also trying to create his own group in the team during the one-day part of the recent away rubber in New Zealand that Pakistan lost 4-1.
The maverick that he is, and with a track record smeared with several instances of indiscipline, Akhtar has a serious credibility gap in public perception. And that is why there are few takers now for his protestations of innocence. The situation is further exacerbated as one takes a look at his most recent record: his good spells were outnumbered by far too many bad ones against India. His cumulative haul of seven wickets at 42 apiece in three Tests is definitely not becoming of his status as the leading light of the Pakistan attack.
Inzamam for his part has been quite successful in selling his version of events to the cricketing establishment. That is why, while Akhtar remains in the dock, Inzamam has been able to get a reaffirmation on his lease on captaincy going ahead till the end of 2004.
But given Inzamam’s rather pronounced lack of communications skills combined with so many trying to throw a spanner in his works, his is likely to be a rough ride. That, though, is nothing to be surprised about: it has been the pattern in Pakistan cricket since 1992, when Imran Khan abdicated at the peak of his glory.
(The writer is Sports Editor, The Nation, Lahore)