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Article: Handling star players will be challenge for Strauss: Gower
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- The Hindustan Times
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- July 5, 2009
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London, July. 5 -- Former England captain David Gower feels that the challenge for Andrew Strauss in the Ashes series will be how to handle his star players.
In his column in The Sunday Times, Gower said that Strauss has to prove that he possesses more traits than those in former English captains Michael Vaughan, Mike Brearley and Ray Illingworth, who all were successful in inspiring their team to beat the Australians in the Ashes.
"The best captains know the art of judging when a word or a chat is needed and for some players very little extra encouragement is necessary. If Strauss can achieve the same with the likes of Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff, he will be in clover," Gower said.