Can I ask why everyone think Root is a bad captain?
He has just had his best year yet with the bat so if the captaincy is effecting his batting then I would love to see what he would do without it!
Is he not a leader? His on field captaincy not up to it?
Or is it that he has an awful management team behind him that haven't helped him at all one bit and if he had the right team etc.... he might actually do alright?
For me there's an issue with some of his tactical decision making - it's all very reactive rather than proactive.
My biggest problem with his captaincy though is with his management of individuals; I don't think he gets the best out of players or creates the conditions for them to thrive. I'm thinking in particular about his treatment of Moeen when he threw him under a bus. He bowled Archer into the ground and out of this series with a stress fracture.
I didn't like him having a public go at the bowlers for bowling too short in the second test when subsequent comments from Anderson suggested that those comments hadn't been made in private first.
So yeah, great batsman but I don't think he's the kind of leader that is going to inspire people to run through walls so lets let him focus on the day job.
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