Ram Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Tactical acumen is only 10% of captaincy.. More important are man management skills, ability to sell players into a vision that they will run through a brick wall for, reliable instincts under pressure, a personality that commands respect among the team. Ashwin is a just a smart human.. With a few hours of studying, he's smart enough to have a decent go at a second order differential equation.. but that does not automatically equate to solid captaincy skills. His Achilles heal is his incredibly sensitive nature and propensity to react strongly at every perceived slight.. So if you play your cards well, you can get under his skin rather easily and ruffle him. Plus - I dont think he's the most personable or like-able character in the world. His biggest test yet this year will be how he manages to handle the Chris Gayle situation. At some in the next 4-6 games or so, law of averages will catch up with Chris and his numbers will start to dip alarmingly. Will Ashwin have the cohones to walk up to an all powerful personality like Chris and tell him he has lost his spot in the playing eleven? Even by KXIP's own pronouncements, Chris has already exceeded his expectations by winning 3 matches for them so far. So in Chris' view, they are playing with house money now and should continue to play him. Chris is playing now not just to re-assert his dominance, every tournament he partakes is essentially an audition for the next T20 tournament. So Chris will want to keep his place in the side so that he can continue performing and win his next big contract elsewhere in the world.. Jimmy Cliff, UrmiSinhaRay and philcric 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trichromatic Posted May 5, 2019 Share Posted May 5, 2019 So much hype about him being smart and all yet he can end up at bottom with decent team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SecondSlip Posted May 5, 2019 Share Posted May 5, 2019 7 minutes ago, Trichromatic said: So much hype about him being smart and all yet he can end up at bottom with decent team. One of the main reasons why CSK and MI are very successful is because they have continuity in their team. They play with their settled core players in majority of their matches. Captains like Kohli and Ashwin are massive failures in this regard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helperononline Posted May 5, 2019 Share Posted May 5, 2019 (edited) Some of the field placement were very good 1) Watson wicket they set the field for bouncer and got him confused by bowling straight 2) Raina wicket also brilliant Captaincy Ashwin is good but he tries too much and forget to bowl full quota of over for shami Would rate him 7/10 in Captaincy Edited May 5, 2019 by helperononline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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