Shane Warnes captaincy really shon in the last 2 games, in my opiniion.
With Sri Lanka 0-95 off 15 overs it looked like a 300+ total on the cards
and the possibility of them runnign away with it. Shane applied the
pressures at the right times, bringing himself on to bowl (as he did
against England) and, as pointed out to by commentators at the time,
continued to attack and look for wickets to restrict the runs down to a
"gettable total".
The same philosiphy was not adopted by his senior, more experienced
counterparts Rnatunga (and Stewart on Friday) and they paid the
consequences by being trounced.
He rotated the bowlers well, and intelligently and I believe he won the
game in the 20-30 over mark when he was able to restrict Sri Lanka's run
scoring.
He seems to have the knack of making the right move at the right time, a
skill no doubt obtained by playing under one of the greatest captains of
all, and for someone with such limited experience I think he has done
exceptionally.
My only "slight" concern is that he seems to get a little flustered at
times, unlike Taylor or Waugh, who are very cool customers under pressure
(do you recall ever seeing them "lose there cool" on the field..even for a
moment? I cant.), although in the few games ive watched Warnie lead, he's
been visibly emotional, upset, frustrated, whatever at certain events on
the field. This may not be necessarily a "bad" thing, he has his own style
and he is his own person, but, as you rightly point out then, kdw, this may
hinder his ability to bring home a close match. Who can say, we will just
have to wait and see.
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Regards
Peter
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Quote:
> He's doing well, but the mark of a good captain is the amount of close
games
> he can pull off. The results so far don't show much about his captaincy.
> For instance, how would you analyse Sri lanka 259 and Australia 2/260 in
> Sydney when looking at Warne's captaincy of the side?
> kdw
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