February 12, 2005

Is captaincy the difference?

I'm listening to cricket. Jamaica is playing the Leeward Islands in St Maarten. Leewards has just declared their innings at 510 for 9. This is the sixth game and for the first five, Tamar Lambert was the captain. Under his captaincy they won all five.

Now Wavell Hinds, the West Indian player, has come back and has taken over the captaincy and they are facing this huge total. When you look at Jamaica's batting line up, we are very capable of pulling off that total.

But the question is surely being asked that if Tamar was still captain, would Leewards have got so many runs? I can't answer that. I understand that the ground is a batsman's paradise and is small, so many sixes and fours. We shall wait and see what our batsmen do.

Over in St Vincent, the Barbados team, after making I think it was 310, have bowled out the Windward Islands team for fifty something. Before this, Barbados couldn't win anything. Sherwin Campbell was the captain. The real captain Courtney Browne has come back, and immediately making his mark it would seem.

So is it the captaincy of a team that makes the difference in how the team performs? Donald Trump seems to think so. For the last several episodes of The Apprentice, he has fired the project manager of the team who has lead the projects, even if one of the team members had messed up.

Anyway, it's too soon to condemn Wavell. He lead his club team to the championship last year and was beaten finalist in the one day competition, so he has some sort of track record of leading. Let's give him time to see what he can come up with.

Posted by yamfoot at February 12, 2005 12:54 PM
Comments

Yes captaincy makes a difference. Does this make you rethink your stance on Lara as Windies captain?

Posted by: jdid at February 13, 2005 10:19 AM

Of course captaincy makes a difference.I did not listen to Ja game so I can't comment specifically.But the captain is the on field general and he has to read the game and act accordingly.He also has to be able to keep the team cohesive.My 2 cents

Posted by: kami at February 13, 2005 07:47 PM

Yes, captaincy does make a differecne.. and thats why WI will never win under LAra. The man who brings the disparate talents and personalities together best of all will make the best leader. And one man may be able to do it with one set of players and structure, while he may fail miserably with another set of players and a different structure. Remeember Tamar almost all these guys as under 15s or under 19s and won with them so they have that certain respect for him and his knowledge of the game.. (was that to long) may need to start a blog myself

Posted by: Pelico at February 14, 2005 10:20 PM