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The Art of Captaincy

4/13/202653 min

Two Ashes winning England captains, Michael Vaughan and Sir Alastair Cook, join Steve Crossman to discuss the art of captaincy in cricket.

Leading England makes you one of the most recognisable faces in sport, it brings with it all manner of responsibility, scrutiny, joy and despair. But how do you manage different personalities in the dressing room? What marks someone out as a future England captain? What’s it like to be in the spotlight and face scrutiny? How do you cope when it comes to an end?

Plus, Ben Stokes leadership and the likely challenges the current England captain will face in his fifth summer as skipper.

Clips

Cook decodes Stokes’s ‘weak men’
Manage the person, not player
Cook’s bittersweet captaincy peak
When criticism starts to sink you
‘I winged it’ at Lord’s
Stokes’s courage and connection
Don’t chase the armband
Inside Stokes’s tactical edge
Cook’s day he couldn’t enjoy

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Steve Crossman· Host0:00

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