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The ICC team of the decades are absolute jokes.
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Are you a cricketer?
Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
I mean yes, but I still boast a fearsome zero innings at that level.
I haven't played for two or three years now though; I've just had other priorities but not regretted it at all. I'm sure at some point I'll pick it up again and play six or eight recreational games a season but I don't miss people treating a meaningless low-level game of cricket like it's the be all and end all of everything. And I'd say that "low-level" applies to pretty much anything under Minor Counties tbh
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Sherlock Holmes
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LMAO
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Read through this thread to realise how much the social media cancer has infected the brains of most people
Ed Smith
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I think the rational is it stops bowlers playing heroball and bowling themselves into the ground.
Sherlock Holmes
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Not necessarily. We have superb captains who are primarily a bowler.
But I guess it has more to do with the things a captain has to do during the time a team fields.
A bowler generally guards the third man or something similar as he has to bowl from the other end during his spell. While most captians happen to be in the inner field. To manage a side well.
Besides a captains has far more things to take care of during a fielding phase,
He has to set fields.
He has to change bowlers.
He has to check the over rate.
Et cetera. Et cetera.
A batsman can well equip with this as he doesn't have to concentrate on bowling. Whereas a bowler, in addition to all of the above. Has to deal with the line, the length, run up, pitching in right area. So it might become cumbersome for a few.
Not to say we have got tremendous bowlers who captained their sides very efficiently. Jason Holder, Imran Khan, Daniel Vettori, Lasith Malinga, Anil Kumble, and many more. I just happen to miss so many for now.
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That too might be a psychological and emotional reason if I think over it.
Ed Smith
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Was something Flintoff was very guilty of during his ill fated 06/07Ashes captaincy. Its to easy to get desperate for a wicket and try and do it all yourself.
I think I also read it somewhere that it has been due to the tradition from the earlier era, when the batsmen were usually the rich merchants, who would lead the team, while bowlers were the poor workers. Thus it was rare for bowlers to become captains.
Sherlock Holmes
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Not the case anymore
Ed Smith
Gaffer
But, cricket is run by old whites who don't exactly have their finger on the pulse, so it'll probably still have some bearing.
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A bowler?! As captian?! Not in my day Sonny Jim! Ect ect
Read this and tell me this bloke approves of bowlers being captains
Kick out the Great Unwashed! MCC member's plea as hallowed Lord's Pavilion is invaded by Twenty20 cricket fans
John Fingleton, pictured, member of Maylebone Cricket Club voiced his discontent about having the Lord's Cricket Ground's prestigious Pavilion invaded by 'The Great Unwashed' during a Twenty20 game.
