How do we measure the success of a captain? wins? attitude?
field plans, bowling changes, tactics and usage of resources efficiently.
Captaincy cant be measured as its more on the basis of a qualitative. People use wins to measure captaincy which i think is the most ridiculous way.
Babar Azam has won many games last year, but everyone knows it was due to the team combination and toss factor.
Captain wise he lost us the world t20 semi final but it got ignored as people think personal performance also defines captaincy.
Azhar Ali was a good captain, he never needed help in field setting or using bowlers. But he was removed due to not being flashy.
Shadab Khan is spot on with his field setting and command over the guys. He uses his batters well too. Infact, in Pakistan cricket no captaincy except for Shadab keeps on shuffling his batters. Shadab losses it with his poor bowling changes.. He doesnt know the art of getting 2-4 overs fullfilled by someone else.
Dhoni was very cunning in this. Whenever he sense an opportunity he would bring in a part timer and make sure that part timer got most overs done thus always saving himself from giving overs to the bowlers who got spanked. He would even have options, and this was the captain of a team that had poor medium pacers.
I realized watching Misbah and Dhoni is that its an art to utilize your limited resources efficiently.
Rizwan has shown us how to use resources. The way he used Kushdil Shah was just marvelous. Kushdil rarely bowls overs, and Rizwan acted like Dhoni and was first getting overs fulfilled by Kushdil, now he is his main weapon.
Rizwan even bowled the death overs with Willey.
Shaheen is still new, he has backed his players, and as he sets his own field in international he could be trusted with that. Shaheen could turn out to be an international level captain as the guy is cunning. If he is given domestic captaincy full time he could be someone to be watched out for as captain.
