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Lara's leadership not a patch on his batting

"Many of the qualities that have made Lara the great batsman of the past 15 years - the self-obsession, the ego, the individualism, the outrageous talent - are qualities that often do not transfer to captaincy

George Binoy
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
"Many of the qualities that have made Lara the great batsman of the past 15 years - the self-obsession, the ego, the individualism, the outrageous talent - are qualities that often do not transfer to captaincy. This World Cup has not told us much we did not already know about the Prince of Port of Spain: he is a great batsman who is singularly ill-equipped for leadership," writes Mike Atherton in The Sunday Telegraph.

George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo