The captain of the currently touring Australian cricket team in India, George Bailey, has a unique side to his cricketing abilities. He was named as a member of the Australian ODI team in March 2010 after his highly successful stint as Tasmania’s captain. But Bailey sat on the bench and didn’t play a single match. However, the Australian selectors had so much faith in Bailey’s leadership abilities that they named him as the T-20 captain for the 2011-12 season. Bailey, thus, has a unique distinction of being made a captain for a cricketing format, for which he was making his playing debut. There is only one parallel to this in Australian cricket history, when Dave Gregory was appointed test captain in 1877, without having ever played a single test match earlier.