Creating a culture of leadership for West Indies captains

Sun, Sep 20, '15 by COLIN CROFT

Judging from noises emanating from media, insular cricketing personnel and representative cricket boards too, West Indies present cricket captaincy came down to being nearly a mano-y-mano affair, at least an imaginary one, featuring Barbados’ young fast bowling all-rounder Jason Holder and Trinidad and Tobago’s seasoned wicket-keeper batsman Denesh Ramdin.

Even in cyberspace that would be a no-contest but that supposition of one versus the other is also far from the truth. This recent captaincy appointment of Holder to lead WI to Sri Lanka and onwards is all about efficiency, complete effort, hopeful and anticipated success, and most importantly, the future of what could positively transpire in WI teams over the next decade or so.

Paraphrasing actor Michael Douglas in the film “The American President” describing attitude, fight and determination needed when acquiring American citizenship, these are also required to be good present WI ODI, Tests and T-20’s captains. You have to want it bad but it is not at all easy!