The coach-captain axis: a brief history

Micky Stewart and Graham Gooch 1989-92 A shared obsession with fitness made for a smooth relationship between the two, if not with some of their players: David Gower couldn't hide his distaste for laps and was dropped A bit like Mr Motivator and Lizzie Webb Ray Illingworth and Mike Atherton 1995-97 Two stubborn northerners – with 36 years between them – became locked in a battle to show who was the most unyielding. If one said tomay-to, the other would say tomah-to; it was a relief when the ECB called the whole thing off by getting rid of Illingworth A bit like Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas David Lloyd and Alec Stewart 1998-99 Fierce competitors who bonded over a love of Queen and country and shared a mistrust of brilliant but inconsistent talents like Phil Tufnell and Andrew Caddick. In their first Test series they... [read full story]                    

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