Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Leaders leaders everywhere.....

.......and not a decision made. John Buchanan thinks otherwise. Here's an interesting idea!

"I really think in the course of this 20-over tournament we have the capacity to have the team coach, Matthew Mott, running the batting side of things. If we have to change the batting order or change personnel to fit a certain situation, then that is something that could fall under his control. "Once on the field, we have some very good leaders there in Chris Gayle, Brendon McCullum, Brad Hodge and Sourav Ganguly. The laws of the game state that you need a captain for certain formal roles, such as the coin toss, but that aside, I see there is scope to challenge the way teams have been run in the past"

Dileep Premachandran calls it Politburo captaincy. Here's his article on cricinfo. It is perhaps fitting that it was introduced in Kolkata.

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