The Winning Way 2.0Learnings from Sport for Managers

by Anita Bhogle

The Australian cricketer Michael Clarke was dropped in 2005, a year after an outstanding debut in international cricket. In most places, it would have been viewed as a major setback, but interestingly that very day Mark Waugh said, ‘I said he’d be a captain in years to come and I still think he will be … he’s got a great cricket brain. It’s certainly not the end of the world for Michael Clarke, he’s just got to get back and enjoy himself.’ Darren Lehmann wrote in The Daily Telegraph that Clarke’s sacking would make him a better player, just as it did for the Waugh brothers. ‘It’s not the worst thing that can happen. He’ll come back a better player. All good players go through it. They’ve obviously made the call he needs to go away and make runs and he’ll do that on his ear. He’ll be back, no doubt about it.’