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The first England cricket captain was one James Lilywhite, in 1876 and 77. England played Australia. They won a game; they lost a game. There is little else to note about Mr Lilywhite other than that he had a stonking beard and silly surname. But what of the other England cricket captains? Who are the most memorable? Who were the greatest leaders? Who had the silliest name of all?* Find out all, and more, below.
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Botham was the second player ever to both score 100 runs and take 10 wickets in a Test, and is arguably the most charismatic England cricket captain ever. Owed to the Ashes and the Jubilee Test in then-Bombay, his exploits in the early 1980s have since become the stuff of legend.
Following the 2002/3 Ashes, Michael Vaughan was held in fabulous esteem in the cricketing world, with critics hailing him as one of the greatest batsmen in the game. A strong opening batsman, Vaughan once more captained the England team in 2005, leading them to a stunning victory in the Ashes.
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It's not just English cricket fans who are waiting for their chance to take on the world. Cricket fans from all the test playing nations will pick up International Cricket Captain because you can choose to be captain of any country, not just /England. This is another new feature of Cricket Captain III. Generally we are talking to males, PC or console gamers 15-40 years old who are Strategy management gaming sports fans.Now new gaming audiences can captain their way to the top of World cricket. The game is available on PC, PS2 console and PSP hand held.PC players for the massive statistics database updated for 2007 and with more intelligent batting, bowling and fielding from the opposition AIPS2 players for the all new fully motion captured player animations, 3D highlights engine and Tracker Cam all wrapped in TV presentation style. Available on PlayStation for first time in 7 years.PSP players for the short form games like Twenty20 and two player matches over WiFi connections. First time on a handheld.What's it like to play and what can you do?
This is a list of all English national cricket captains, comprising all of the men, boys and women who have captained an English national cricket team at official international level. England played in the first Test match in 1877 and have played more Test matches, and had more captains, than any other team. In the 19th century, the captains for overseas tours were chosen by the promoters, with James Lillywhite, Alfred Shaw and Arthur Shrewsbury being the main professional promoters. However, some amateur tours went abroad under Lord Harris and Lord Hawke. Home captains were selected by the home ground authority, who often went for their local favourites.
WINDHOEK, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Namibian senior men's cricket team captain Gerhard Erasmus said on Monday that early sports development can nurture future professional players who can replicate his feat.
Great cricket teams are made by a great captain. A great captain maximizes his resources and brings the best out of players. Change in the batting order. Field placement. Bowling. All of these things can decide the fate of a game. A successful captain makes these changes at the right moment and reaps the rewards.
Waqar Younis is regarded as one of the best bowlers of all time, and his bowling overshadowed his credentials as a captain. He holds the record as the youngest Pakistan captain and third-youngest captain in the history of Test cricket.
Sourav Ganguly led India as captain in a period when the match-fixing scandal that shocked the world happened. He had two jobs to do: 1) make fans believe in cricket again and 2) make India a reliable team. He successfully did both.
President Thabo Mbeki issued a statement calling the former national team captain one of South Africa's most talented cricketers. The president said he will remember Cronje for - in his words - "his moments of sheer brilliance on the cricket pitch."
Wisden ObituaryCronje, Wessel Johannes, South Africa's cricket captain in a record 53 Tests and138 one-day internationals between 1994 and 2000, died on June 1, 2002 when thecargo plane in which he was travelling crashed on Cradock Peak in the Outeniquamountain range on its approach to his home town, George, in the Western Cape. Hewas just 32. Two years earlier, Hansie Cronje's admission that he took bribes frombookmakers to provide information and fix matches exposed the extent of a corruptionscandal that cricket authorities had signally neglected to confront.
At first he had hotly denied charges levelled by the New Delhi police, who duringa phone-tapping operation in March 2000 heard him conspiring with an Indian bookmaker, Sanjeev Chawla, to predetermine performances. And such was his standing as a player, captain and sporting ambassador for post-apartheid South Africa that few in the cricket world doubted him, preferring to heap scorn on the Indian investigation.
Ali Bacher, managing director of the United Cricket Board of South Africa, spoke ofCronje's "unquestionable integrity and honesty". Then, four days after the accusation,Cronje confessed in a 3 a.m. phone call to Bacher that he had not been "entirelyhonest". He was immediately stripped of the captaincy, as his side prepared for a oneday series against Australia, and in subsequent testimony to the government-appointed King Commission revealed, sometimes in tears, further details of his involvement with bookmakers in match-fixing. The cricket world listened agog as much as aghast. The game's reputation, it seemed, was at an all-time low. Cronje's life and career were in tatters.
The importance of discipline, dedication and hard work had been inculcated in Hansieat an early age, honed at Grey College in his native Bloemfontein, and was mademanifest in 1991-92, his second year in charge, when the young Free State team,coached by Eddie Barlow to a level of physical and mental fitness rare even for SouthAfrican cricket, finished runners-up in the Castle Bowl (formerly the Currie Cup) andwon the limited-overs Nissan Shield. The next two seasons brought Castle Cup andone-day doubles, followed by one-day trophies in subsequent years - a total of seventitles in five seasons. International commitments meant the young captain was not everpresent, but his influence remained inspirational.
Inside the year, South Africa had been readmitted to full membership of the ICC,and the 22-year-old Cronje was one of four non-playing observers - two white, twonon-white - taken to India with the first post-isolation side. Three months later, hewas bowling five tidy overs for 17 as South Africa, captained by Kepler Wessels,shocked Australia with a nine-wicket victory at Sydney in the World Cup. He playedin eight of their nine games in that tournament, including the infamous semi-finalagainst England in which South Africa's target was adjusted after rain from 22 off 13balls to 21 off one. Then he went to the Caribbean for South Africa's first Test sincereadmission, and their first ever against West Indies. Cronje scored only five and two,but in 68 Tests would go on to make 3,714 runs at 36.41, as well as taking 43 wicketsat 29.95; in 188 one-day internationals he made 5,565 runs at 38.64, took 114 wicketsat 34.78 with an economy rate of 4.44, and held 72 catches. His first-class figuresfrom 184 games were 12,103 runs at 43.69 and 116 wickets at 34.43.
In 1995, he expunged his unhappy introduction to English conditions by making1,362 first-class runs at 50.44 in a one-off season for Leicestershire, whose cricketmanager Jack Birkenshaw and all-rounder Gordon Parsons, Cronje's brother-in-lawsince 1991, participated in Orange Free State's triumphs. Among his four hundredswas 213 against Somerset at Weston-super-Mare. But it would take him ten Tests anduntil 1998 to reach 50 against England, whereupon he did so five times on the trot: 81 in South Africa's win at Lord's, 69 not out at Old Trafford, 126 and 67 at TrentBridge, and 57 (plus a duck) at Headingley, where England took the series 2-1 withhelp from some inept umpiring. He was South Africa's top-scorer, with 401 runs at66.83, but it was generally accepted that his unenterprising captaincy had let the rubberslip away. Instead of penetration he went for strangulation, setting defensive fields forhis seam bowlers and encouraging them to bowl wide of off stump: what Bob Woolmer, South Africa's coach, called "aggressive containment". 2ff7e9595c
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