We asked Virender Sehwag, who couldn’t have been too easy to understand given the maverick he was (and actually is!), how he handled players when he was captain. ‘You have to understand them,’ he said. ‘For example, if Gautam Gambhir hadn’t scored runs in a few games, I would try and hurt him so that he went out to bat intent on proving me wrong. But with Dinesh Karthik (who played under him in IPL 1), I explained things, we talked about his strengths and weaknesses because that works for him.’1 These were people driven by different emotions and so as captain you can’t have a one size fits all
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