Chappelli believes Warney would have made a great skipper

[Romeo]

Interesting that in his latest book he also criticises Punter for his tendency to captain by committee.

Warne would have been a great Australian captain: Chappell


Ian Chappell says Shane Warne could have been one of Australia's great captains if he had been given the chance to lead the Test side.
Warne, Test cricket's leading wicket-taker, is still an integral part of the team, but at the age of 37 he appears to have missed the chance to captain his country.
"It is one of my greatest disappointments as a cricket person and former Australia captain that Warnie has never had the chance to lead the team," Chappell said.
"The first time I saw him captain was for Victoria in a Super 8 competition a few years ago. He just made it so bloody exciting. Rather than think 'how can I save runs here?', it was put in a catching fielder and give the ball to the best bowler and let's see if we can get another wicket."
Chappell, 63, said he immediately rang his close friend Richie Benaud, another former Australia captain, to tell him about the potential for another great leg-spinning captain.
"That's how exciting he made it for me," he said. "To me that's the sad part, I think the public would have loved him to have captained the side."
Chappell said Warne could keep playing Test cricket for a few more years, though he doubted about whether he could retain the necessary motivation.
Warne has been critical of Australian coach John Buchanan over matters including last month's boot camp, which he was forced to attend.
"Warne is a very old-time common sense cricketer," Chappell said. "He bowls a lot. That's what he was saying about the boot camp: 'I don't need to be pushing cars up hills, I need to bowl.'
"To play at your best you've got to love what you're doing and if a little bit of love for the game is killed off then suddenly it goes."
Chappell does not believe Warne's relationship with Buchanan - whose brainchild the boot camp was - should be a major issue for captain Ricky Ponting.
"If I'm the captain and I've got a bowler who has 685 Test wickets and I've got a coach I know where my loyalty lies because here's a guy who can win me games," he said.
-Reuters

 

[Cooldude]

Chappelli should STFU

 

[DynamoUltra]

No **** Chapelli.

 

[skilts]

Chappelli should STFU

Why FFS?

 

[SorryIHammerChicken]

Chappelli should STFU

Yeah, why? He's spot on. Maybe Warnie's off field antics were looked upon poorly by the Australian team and after Waugh was dropped from the ODI team they decided it wouldn't be a good idea to give him the captaincy on that basis?

 

[DIG]

I reckon Warne would've been a brilliant on-field leader and captain and his players would have gone over hot coals for him.
But his problems off-field - one thing after another after another just meant it could never happen. And besides, look at who we had instead - Steve Waugh was a great captain and Ponting's been fine too....led us to world cup glory from the front, but he just has to win the Ashes back now.

 

[Romeo]

In today's Herald Sun Greg Ritchie has slammed Punter saying we have little chance of winning back the Ashes with both he and Buchanan at the helm. He says you write what the latter knows about coaching on the back of a coaster.

 

[Browney2006]

I love how all the past players think Ponting is a dud captain, yet people still think he is the best in the world and better than Vaughan & try and back him up. Ponting is a champion batsmen, probably the best in the world at the moment, but please dont say he is a good captain.

 

[Extras]

I love how all the past players think Ponting is a dud captain, yet people still think he is the best in the world and better than Vaughan & try and back him up. Ponting is a champion batsmen, probably the best in the world at the moment, but please dont say he is a good captain.

It must really rankle you then when the players that play under Ponting say he is a good captain.

 

[Browney2006]

It must really rankle you then when the players that play under Ponting say he is a good captain.

Nope, not at all, they are pretty much under contract to. I would be absolutely shocked if a current player came out and said Ponting was anything but the best captain in the world.

 

[Romeo]

I still think it largely comes back to the raw material at your disposal. Fleming is usually touted as the best captain in the world yet has done very little against the best teams. Perhaps he was overrated because he drew with us a few years back but IIRC the series was very rain marred and only some slowish batting prevented us from winning one of the tests. And NZ has lost 4-0 in one dayers and 2-0 in tests to SA in the past 6 months who are captained by muppet universally regarded as the worst skipper. If Fleming was that good he should have made more of an impact.

 

[Extras]

I love how all the past players think Ponting is a dud captain, yet people still think he is the best in the world and better than Vaughan & try and back him up. Ponting is a champion batsmen, probably the best in the world at the moment, but please dont say he is a good captain.

Does Chappelli critisize Pontings captaincy in his new book?.

 

[Romeo]

Does Chappelli critisize Pontings captaincy in his new book?.

Yes but Chappelli has always had a pro-Warney agenda. He didn't like Steve Waugh so was always quick to criticise his captaincy and thought that Warney, despite his off-field troubles would have been better than Punter. And he thinks the latter tends to captain by committee.

 

[Browney2006]

Does Chappelli critisize Pontings captaincy in his new book?.

Dont know, i dont have it.

According to Romeo though, yes.

 

[Romeo]

Dont know, i dont have it.

According to Romeo though, yes.

I haven't got it yet but Chappelli was interviewed on the ABC a couple of days ago and various sections of it were quoted and discussed, in particular his views regarding Ponting. It hits the bookshops today.

 

[Extras]

I guess Chappelli will say anything to sell his book, you dont sell many by not being controversial. I dont think I will buy it if all he does is dribble on about long forgotten things like Warnie being captain.

 

[Cooldude]

Why FFS?

Coz he's been repeating the same ****ing topic for the past decade

Getting boring, he should find himself something new to whinge about.

He would've made a great skipper, well thank you captain obvious, we all know that, the problem is he will never captain the country and rightly so

And Chappelli should STFU regardless since he's a senile old twit continually talking out of his ass

 

[Romeo]

Coz he's been repeating the same ****ing topic for the past decade

Getting boring, he should find himself something new to whinge about.

He would've made a great skipper, well thank you captain obvious, we all know that, the problem is he will never captain the country and rightly so

And Chappelli should STFU regardless since he's a senile old twit continually talking out of his ass

Just on his antipathy towards Steve Waugh, I'll never forget when he said that if Steve was batting in his backyard he'd walk to the window and shut the blinds but if at the same time he found out that Mark was batting somewhere else in the world he'd hop on the next plane to watch him. It showed a certain amount of irrationality.

But one sidelight re. Chappelli is that he's probably the only cricketer or ex-cricketer who doesn't have a ghost writer to write his stuff it was recently revealed.

 

[chapmanmagic35]

Warne would've made a great skipper....he was just unlucky I guess he played in the same era as some good ones.

 

[Romeo]

AUSTRALIA will lose the upcoming Ashes series as long as Ricky Ponting and John Buchanan are at the helm, former Australia batsman Greg Ritchie said last night.

In a scathing attack on Australia's captain and coach, Ritchie described the pair as "Abbott and Costello".

He said legendary leg-spin bowler Shane Warne should lead the team.

"Australia would win the Ashes if Shane Warne was captain," Ritchie said.

"On the field he (Ponting) doesn't know what's going on.

"England's bowlers have our measure."

 

[Browney2006]

Are there any Ex-Aussies that actually back Ponting?

 

[Romeo]

Ritchie critical of Ponting and Buchanan
Cricinfo staff
October 1, 2006

Greg Ritchie, the former Australian batsman, has criticised the tactics of Australian coach John Buchanan, and captain Ricky Ponting and has predicted another Ashes victory for England later this year if the two continue to be in charge. Addressing a gathering at a dinner in Adelaide, Ritchie pushed for Shane Warne to be elevated to the captaincy.
"Australia would win the Ashes if Shane Warne was captain," Ritchie was quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald. "On the field, he [Ponting] doesn't know what's going on. England's bowlers have our measure."
Australia lost last year's Ashes in England after a gap of nearly 20 years, losing the series 1-2. After an emphatic victory in the first Test at Lord's, Australia's form slipped, and Ritchie was critical of Ponting's decision to bowl first in the second Test at Edgbaston, after which England posted 407 in a single day. Glenn McGrath, Australia's strike fast bowler, pulled out after suffering a freak injury shortly before the start, trodding over a stray cricket ball while playing touch-rugby. England squared the series by the narrow margin of two runs.
"What were they doing playing rugby league before the match?" he said. "What Buchanan knows about coaching you could write on the back of a dinner plate."
Ritchie also blamed Ponting for Australia's shock defeat in a one-day international against South Africa in Johannesburg earlier this year, failing to defend a world-record score of 434. "It was an effort that you wouldn't expect from the Sturt under-14 captain," he said.
The latest dig at Buchanan is the second in the last few weeks, after Warne was quoted as saying that he didn't deserve too much credit for Australia's success as a team. Warne later backtracked on his comments, saying that his quotes were taken out of context.

 

[Browney2006]

Mark73, you taking this in?

 

[CrazyQ]

Mark73, you taking this in?

Dont worry, the more we say this, the more they dont listen.

Ricky Ponting is not a great captain, Shane Warne as captain would have won Australia the Ashes IMO, Vaughan out-smarted him then and will do it again on or off field.

 

[mark73]

Mark73, you taking this in?

ooooh, NERVE OFFICIALLY STUNG!!!

All I know about Greg Ritchie is he got arsed as a commentator for being a moron.Seems he's adhering to those lofty standards again. But while we're at it, Jumbo the elephant (has about as much credibility as the fat ponce) said the same thing.I'm surprised you didn't copy and paste the link.