Monday, 3 January 2005

Captaining the Rest of the World

The Rest of the World XI has been chosen for a charity one-day match to play and Asian XI to raise money for tsunami victims. Stephen Fleming, Daniel Vettori and Chris Cairns have been chosen in the side, but Ricky Ponting has been appointed captain. Richard Hadlee and Steve Waugh were the selectors and Hadlee has stated that he and Waugh agreed on the choice of captain. This is quite a snub to the New Zealand skipper coming, as it does, from our chief of selectors. Fleming is certainly the better captain and even the one-eyed Australian commentators have been critical of Ponting's recent decision-making. Perhaps Sir Paddles simply wants Flem to have a bit of a mental break, but if that was the case then I hope he spoke to the skipper first.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Fleming beats Ponting as a Captain hands down..In fact half the current Captains of the Test playing nations beat Ponting hands down. That is coming from a one -eyed Aussie who shudders at the site of Ponting making field changes and has Steve Waugh posters all over his flat!.