Ranking 10 smartest captains in cricket history
Captaincy is considered the biggest challenge in the game of cricket.
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4. Stephen Fleming (NZ)
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Fleming also had a great aura as a captain. He had one of the greatest legacies as a captain as well as a player. Stephen Fleming was the first New Zealand cricketer to go past 7k runs in Test cricket, having played 111 matches to reach the mark.
He was considered a great strategist who knew how to play the conditions. Fleming was the captain of a side that didn’t have many match-winners already. He created the moments out of those players who went on to become huge later, Mccullum and Vettori to name a few.
In 2000, New Zealand went on to win the inaugural Champions Trophy and Fleming was the captain. Under him, they went into the semi-finals a couple of times too. It might not seem a great deal on paper but the fact that New Zealand looked like a threatening team had a lot to do with Fleming’s captaincy.
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