5 captains who succeeded in one format but didn't in another
In cricket, the role of captain is extremely pivotal as he’s the one who masterminds the team’s strategies. Probably one of the reasons why the captain is lifted on the nation’s shoulders after the team wins a match and why the captain is blamed following a loss.
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Over the years, cricket has witnessed many great captains leading their team and some of them have captained the team in more than one format. However, a few captains have had mixed stints of captaincy with their team as while they have excelled as a leader in one format, the same cannot be said of another format.
Here is a list of five captains who succeeded in one format but failed to do so in another.
#5 Darren Sammy
Darren Sammy has been one of the best captains in T20 cricket. He was handed the T20 captaincy in 2011 and a year later led the West Indies to victory at the 2012 ICC World T20 in Sri Lanka. The Windies had a decent outing at the 2014 ICC World T20 where they reached the semi-finals but they weren’t looking good prior to the 2016 edition due to disputes with the WICB.
Hence, not many expected them to put up a good show. However, Sammy and the West Indies had the last laugh as they won their second T20 title, beating England in the final. Sammy didn’t have a very good tournament performance-wise but was brilliant in captaincy and is the only captain to have won two T20 world cups.
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In the 47 T20 matches that Sammy has captained, he has won 27, tied 1 and lost 17, thus having a win percentage of 57.44%
However, the same cannot be said of his captaincy performances in Tests and ODIs. Being given the captaincy of the Test and ODI team in 2010, Sammy’s performance hasn’t been very good. In the 30 tests that he has captained, Sammy has won only eight of them with five of them coming against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.
In the 51 ODIs that he has captained, Sammy has a win percentage of 37.25%, winning 19 and losing 30 with one match each being tied and abandoned. He was removed from the Test and ODI captaincy in 2013 before being surprisingly axed as the T20 captain in 2016.