Clealy the conditions and experience of the Batsman play a large role in this, but as a generalisation.
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Fast bowlers because there tends to be more of them in a team and more playing around the world.\n\nHowever, if a spinner is good enough then they tend to be picked anyway i.e Muralitharan or Warne.\n\nIts all down to skill and ability as well as how many people are coming through the ranks for different countries that bowl either spin, swing or fast.
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The reason behind it is very simple. when you talk in terms of captaincy everyone cannot be an ace skipper. Talent and experience are important, no doubt, but you need to have a shrewd brain alongwith the ability to command respect amongst your team members. One needs to be able to instill discipline, confidence and the winning spirit in the team. It is not so much as what goes on, on the field but rather off it.\nThat is why an ace cricketer like Sachin failed in this department whereas Hansie Cronje who was at best an above average batsmen remains one of the greatest captain in the history of this game.\n\nAnil is a champ no doubt but this relatively quiet, sober, subdued gentleman may not have been able to infuse the winning spirit like Ganguly or the thirst to never give up like Kapil Dev.
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Well he is strong physically and he considers Cricket another form of Baseball and he may be a little bit lacking in technique but the sheer power he has allows him to score runs at the rate he does.It is yet to early to compare him with one of the greatest players in the history of Cricket-Sachin Tendulkar and it is also too early to say whether he will break any of Sachin's records.If he keeps going at this rate he definately will break some records.
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Unfortunately the performance of the Indian Team is very pathetic of late.   The present situation calls for drastic and harsh action from the Cricket Board.  I strongly feel that as a first step to improve the performance, payment to the players should be linked to their performance instead of graded system presently in force.  Once this is done, players will be forced to leave their complacency and try hard to earn their money by performing better, which ultimately turn around fortune of Indian Team
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Brian Lara is more patient & leads his side from the front\nwhereas Sachin is technically a bit unsound\nLara has got bigger scores under his cap
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I dunno... betting n stuff will go on everywhere unless u do something really fantastic, i honestly can't imagine what!! but fact remains that participating in fixing matches may not really appeal to today's cricketer, especially when he's raking in more moolah in a single match than what some people manage to make in 15 years...
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hmmm, that is a little bit of an over-generalization, don't you think?
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Yes. Baseball players generally have a much longer tenure and good playing years as opposed to other sports like football, hockey and such that are harder on the body and joints.
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They present themselves as PRETTY BIG TARGETS sometimes.
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Could very well be the environment they were brought up in.
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probably some politics is going on in cricket board
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Rare hitter,\nAlways defender,\nHater of quick runs,\nUltimate ball run getter of every over,\nLoved by girls most of them dont know cricket.
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it takes a lot of training and a lot of goal scoring.
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Mental because they normally come in to protect their teams lead. And they have to act like it's no big deal and just gets the outs. Otherwise they become basket cases and pitch really badly like Brad Lidge in Houston this year. He'd pitch great for a while, then suck really badly for a few weeks.
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The one of the Best Captain of the Cricket world,, he has the many succeses in his name specially the World cup..and a good batsman too
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Ofcourse they can>I believe they had even tried recently but they did not have any good players and their performance was pathetic to sya the least.They will have to promote Cricket,develop good players and then form a Cricket Team which is atleast somewhat of International Calibre.
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Yes they are playing to little tests, but the reason for that is that the BCCI (Board for Control for Cricket in India) know that one day games generate a lot more money.  So to boost their income, they will rather play more ODI's.