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The argument that ditching Ramps was right can be made (more coherently) without that argument.
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How? You ditch players because they don't perform. How do you know that they don't perform? Looking at their stats. Ramprakash, as a top-order batsman, has an average roughly on the same lines as Daniel Vettori, Richard Hadlee or Shaun Pollock- not even close to being good enough.
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I continue to regard getting the most out of such talents as the principle responsibility of the coach: I don't doubt for one moment that a different coach could have got much, much more from Crawley, Ramps and Caddick back then... and from Bell, Read and Harmison more recently.
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Perhaps, but ultimately it's the player's responsibilty to step up to the plate. Ramprakash couldn't do that, which is why he was dropped.