Evaluating players, captains and coaches

http://in.rediff.com/cricket/2006/jan/21chap.htm

Having transformed the Indian team into a winning unit...

This first phrase of the article raises a couple of interesting questions (at least to me):

1) First one is about our media... in my opinion our reporters will make great researchers.. they can almost always make inferences they want (and make us feel that they are right) irrespective of the observations (data) they obtain.

2) Second one is abt how early should one try to infer if a player/captain/coach has IT in him to represent a country. Its not too long ago, we saw reports of Moody being a great coach and having transformed Sri Lanka into a winning unit. Probably this issue is not completely unrelated to the previous one in the sense that more often than not, it is these reporters who raise questions like these. They try to evaluate players/captain/coach as they probably don't have a better "masala" to publish. Needless to say that their timing of such questions is not appropriate usually.