As ayaz memon puts it in his latest column :
"He is confronted with his first dilemma much before the first ball is bowled in the three-match series against Pakistan which begins next Thursday. Can he afford to keep the world’s best player in limited overs cricket out of the five-day game?"modern cricket has changed so much that challenges before captains does not necessarily starts with game anymore and if you are 'newly' appointed to the job, knowing that you are warming the chair for another person to take over and that too almost at the fag end of career...the word 'challenge' acquired new meanings...
but if latest article of Harsha is to be believed, about the way kumble turned up for selection meeting, makes me feel that we are in for something special...
and first glimpse of this will be seen through his selection of final eleven....how he sees yuvi's recent exploits...what he makes of saurav poking at balls of akhtar's pace...how he interprets laxmans recent innings at domestic level (which are nothing much to write about)...the choice of second spinner and composition of team. will he go with the comfort of his tried and tested colleagues or will he choose to tread his own way at the cost of unpleasing some of them...
will he be the gentleman captain he is or will he be the fierce competitor and aggressive captain he is too...if he bowls less or more he will be attacked likely for under or over bowling himself...so how he will tackle always-on-your-face media...the (non)functioning of BCCI...and finally the big ego and mouth of DBV...
lots of questions...and the answers of these is with only one man...our own Kumble...so next few days curtailing to first test are going to be very interesting...
but something tells me that kumble having got the cap, which he desired so much throughout his career and was hurt for never treated as potential one, wont let this chance go away without stamping his class...the authority with which he bowls tirelessly...
one thing is for sure...we are in for some interesting time...
6 comments:
From the first two games that he led Karnataka in the Ranji Trophy this season, he comes across as a pretty defensive captain, in the Rahul Dravid mould.
And given that ( and given the team selected for the Test series) I dont think AK will rock the boat all that much.. Selections and game plans will err on the side of the tried and tested and the conservative instead of out of the box and bold.
homer
if he goes like tried and tested way much like 'auto-pilot' mode...it will be very disappointing...
brings me to question that why one desires so much throughout his illustrative career only to go this way...
or may be we are reading too much...only time will tell
With Dhoni's injury both Ganguly and Laxman could play alongside Yuvraj if India goes in with four bowlers.
I'd be curious to see if Kumble picks an extra bowler instead of a batsman. Like Homer says, I doubt he'll rock the boat much.
soulberry
it seems to me that i am in minority about my opinion on kumble...but there have been instances when player gets in to altogether in different zone when they are captaining national team...and i am still optimistic...lets see
Possible, SP. I don't deny that. Further, Kumble, with only limited number of tests to captain, may want to work with the players he wants.
The few times he took over in the field as Vice Captain of the Indian team...he was reasonably aggresive.
Test matches and Ranji games are different. And I guess it wont be tough for Ak to do the job.
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