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Nasser Hussain & Shane Warne explain the principles that make a GREAT cricket captain!



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Nasser Hussain & Shane Warne discuss the fundamental principles that will make you a great captain, bringing examples from the captains they learnt under and how themselves acted as captains.

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37 Comments

  1. Magnificent bit on KP from Warne at the end. He could just as well be describing what you'd need to captain Shane Warne as Kevin Pietersen.

  2. One thing that they did not touch on was the captain being in form, and so remaining an automatic pick for the team. Almost invariably the captain is chosen from a short list of well established players. However many captains are dropped or replaced when it appears that being captain has in some way badly affected their own form. Whether this is the case, or whether it is more often for some other reason or reasons which the public are not made aware of, is something that would have been interesting to have got some insight into?

  3. I got chills when Nasser mentioned Stephen Fleming….and he is absolutely right…Stephen Fleming was one of the most cunning and resourceful captains to have played the game

  4. True fact – Do you folks know WHY this discussion about captaincy took place?

    It is because I criticized Mike Atherton's captaincy on Twitter and Athers blocked me for it. I am not joking.

    On my Twitter timeline, around last year…someone had posted a pic of Graeme Hick's infamous knock of 98* (infamous because Athers had declared and denied him a hundred. Hick was really upset by the proceedings).
    Anyway…for that pic, someone said that Athers had given Hick enough time to get to a hundred…so declaring the innings when he was on 98 was not exactly unfair (after all, one has to think about the team). I replied – "If Athers really wanted to think of the team, why did he wait till Hick reached 98 to go for the declaration? He should have declared much sooner…if it really was about the team. At least Hick would not have been hurt so much."

    Basically, I thought it was hypocritical of Athers to think that Hick was batting slowly considering Athers was never a fast scorer himself in the first place.

    Remember, England wanted to win that test match in Karachi in 2001? Nasser Hussain has explicitly said in his autobiography that he suggested to Athers to make way for Alec Stewart to open the batting in that innings just so that England could get the runs quickly. Meaning even the England team did not have so much faith in Athers' ability to score runs quickly.

    So…on what grounds did Athers think that Hick batted too slowly to deny him a hundred?🤷🤷🤷

    This is basically what I said about Athers and his captaincy (and I tagged him as well). Mind you, I wasn't rude or abusive or anything…and I certainly did NOT get personal with Athers. I only expressed an honest opinion. And Athers blocked me for it.
    I subsequently tweeted to Nasser about this…Nasser didn't block me or anything (he seems a much more decent guy). But it seems like this discussion about captaincy is more like a scripted defence of Athers putting itself across as a discussion about captaincy (if you listen to the whole podcast on Spotify, you will find that Nasser pointedly defends Athers as a captain on more than a few occasions during this discussion).

  5. Shane, I was really amazed with so less hairs on nasseer's hairs on his head… you should have asked him, which was the innings really who proved your BRAVENESS? what was the match you really proved really you have been portrayed INTELLEGENT???? I personally never admitted this guy who be clever to batted good (better?).. kyun bhai… in what way were you good in Cricket?

  6. My goodness Warne was great to listen to. Not just a great bowler but such a great cricket brain. Will be greatly missed.

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