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Old 01-06-2005, 09:37 AM in reply to Andy Mellon's post starting "You make some interesting points RB...."
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The burden

The burden of captaincy is a hard one; Everyone expects you to fill your boots/take a hatfull of wickets/catches /stumpings every time you play, and to lead from the front and of course to win. I think chanderpaul is a wonderful cricketer, with his eye patches and crab like run, he rreallly is a class act; i don't know what he's like at motivating teams, he certainly seems to have a rag tag bag (no offence meant to WI fans here) to command and I think the nucleus of the squad has talenbt and potential. However, some of the decisions made by the WI board leave me scratching my head!
Chanderpaul has always been a class act, and I've felt he should have been captain for the last 5 years. Lara is a class player, but his time has been .
Often captaincy means performance goes down. However, it can go up, as Chanderpaul shows.

West indies cricket , like cricket in other nations is suffering from competition from other sports and lack of interest in the game. Chanderpaul can lny help improve interest. I'd keep him for at least a season of tests.
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