Any criticism Fleming gets for not winning the World Cup is absurd. New Zealand will never win a World Cup, I figured that out when I was a kid... The satisfaction you get from watching New Zealand play is in seeing your country represented in cricket. Most radio callers don't care about cricket, but I hope someone back home is sticking up for Fleming. He took over at a time when NZ cricket was crap, utter crap, and he did one hell of a job for his country, often with sheer guile.
I can hardly stomach Crowe coming out of the woodwork. He resented Fleming being the captain then and he resents it now. In Crowe's mind he still was, and still is, the captain. Martin Crowe. The head bands, the runner, the melodramatic knee, the magnum opus of an innings. The only guy who can whine about being bowled for a duck by Murali when he made a century in the second innings. There's something wrong with that whole generation of cricketers. Has anyone ever had a positive encounter with Hadlee, for example?
Anyway, Fleming >> Crowe and he had the knocks to prove it. He, not Crowe, took NZ to unprecented success in one day cricket.