A lesson in leadership
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
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"Captains have had a bigger than expected role in IPL," says Peter Roebuck in the Hindu.
As much can be discerned from the identity of the teams that entered the semifinals. Have not Shane Warne, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Dhoni and Virender Sehwag been the most impressive skippers? Sachin Tendulkar’s name could be added ...
Warne reads the game superbly, Yuvraj combines élan and humour, Sehwag has reason in madness and Dhoni conveys pragmatism and charisma. Contrastingly the defeated captains, Rahul Dravid, Adam Gilchrist, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman, did not impose themselves to the same extent.
"There's only so much "that's a HUUUGE six!" you can take.UNLESS YOU are a five-star devotee of the Indian Premier League, it may have escaped your notice that the inaugural slam-bang show reaches its finale this weekend. Be honest now, hands up all those who stayed glued to their screens in the early hours once New Zealand's test quintet headed to England early in May? Didn't think so," writes David Leggat in the New Zealand Herald.
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo