New Delhi: A captain in cricket is totally different from that of football or hockey. Here you need to develop and change your strategies time to time according to the situation. Due to the smaller coaching/management role played out by support staff, as well as the need for greater on-field decision-making, the captain of a cricket team typically shoulders more responsibility for results than captains of other sports.
Most good cricket captains have also been inspirational and innovative thinkers. In fact, sometimes this quality has taken precedence over cricketing ability.
India TV, in its series on captains of World Cup teams, takes a look at Pakistan's captains:
