With all the fuss going around from past two weeks relating to captaincy issue in Cricket Pakistan; I believe this call for a proper psychometric and personality profiling leadership and personality test before selecting the national team’s captain; I am talking about 'The Big Five Personality Test'. For those of you unaware, the big 5 personality test measures the five broad domains of personality which are used to describe human personality.
The big five personality test is nowadays very much common and, also, a part of recruitment in multinational corporations (MNCs). There is a dire need for PCB to be a corporate structure rather than governments run body.
The big five factors are openness to experience, conscientiousness (self-discipline), extraversion (enthusiastic), agreeableness (cooperative), and neuroticism (emotional stability); also referred as O.C.E.A.N.
A captain should be moderate-to-high on openness to experience, high on self-discipline, moderate-to-high on extraversion, moderate-to-high on agreeableness and high on neuroticism. Big five test makes it possible to quantify the five domains. It can quantify how aggressive a captain is.
How Cricket Pakistan can make it more resourceful? A very good option is to conduct the same test from former successful skippers, lets say, players like Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Shane Warne, Steve Waugh and alike; and compare their results with tests of our potential captains, in our case, Afridi and Misbah.
The idea is to make the process more scientific and brainiac. The process can become more effective if it is followed right from grass route level, i.e. under 15, under 19, club competitions, first class cricket, Pakistan A team and Pakistan team.
Psychology :P shorter than usual."process more scientific and brainiac" - Looks like Aamir Sohail in your head at the moment :)
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