Find the right person to do the job....

It has not been the best of times for Saurav Ganguly but he gave a fine example of what captaincy is all about during the first one day match between India and Pakistan yesterday. Pakistan were cruising along at 45/0 and threatening to run away with the game when Akmal played uppishly and the catch went straight to Saurav who was the fielder at Point. Saurav dropped the catch (it was kind of a blinder) but then guess what he did? He took himself off that position immediately and brought Sehwag in that fielding position. And a couple of balls later, the same place, the same catch, this time Sehwag holds on to it.

As they say, leadership is about finding the right person to do the job when you cannot do it right.

For the record, in the very next over, Saurav too held on to a difficult catch, this time of Salman Butt...

On an unrelated note, when will our commentators stop commenting about the benefits of "left-hand right-hand combination"?