best batting skipper

i agree with you saad. even though smith his young and a good captain he certain comes below inzy coz inzy is lot more experience and smith has a lot more to learn. moreover he also has to develop more as a captain as well.

'bangers' is marcus trescothick...that's his nickname as he likes 'bangers n mash' - an english food!

Graeme Smith 2nd as batting skipper??

That's a surprise.

True. Ponting's form in the Test arena has been simply outstanding. He just keeps getting better and better. But he doesn't bat under as much pressure as Inzamam does.

Inzamam has also been in great form with the bat...though not as good as Ponting. The reason for that could be that he almost always has to bat under pressure. He knows that his failure could mean the failure of the team. He knows that his failure could change the result of the match. When Inzamam fails, most of the times the rest of the batting order just gets ripped apart as well. But when Inzamam does well, which is almost always, the rest of the team is confident that they can do well. Inzamam is almost as good as Ponting currently in batting.

And he is certainly a better skipper than Ponting, so that leads to me to conclude that he is a better batting/skipper than Ponting.

The reason why I say that Inzamam is a better skipper than Ponting is that they both lead completely different teams. Ponting took over from a great captain -Steve Waugh- who had made the Australian team nearly perfect. Ponting leads a bunch of high class players...Gilchrist, Hayden, McGrath, Warne, etc., etc. They are the ones that are responsible for the success of the Australian team...not the captaincy of Ponting.

Inzamam on the other hand leads a bunch of amateur youngsters. And before Inzamam was made skipper, the Pakistan side had already gone through a lot of twists and turns, so it wasn't easy taking over as captain. He took a Pakistan team that was completely hopeless until he was made captain. He took this bunch of hopeless, amateur youngsters and he turned them into a bunch of hardworking, committed, and collective cricketers. He has made the Pakistan team a top team.

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i would like to say fleming but he is out of form so i would say ricky ponting for his form last year and this year in the test

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ya what is bangers?

Who is bangers???

yep dravid should be there definately. What's trescothick doing even though vaughan is captain?

yea he is better than most of the guys in that list

y isnt dravido there

Do you know where your shift key is, vettori no2?

try to vote with head not heart