Who is the greatest Indian captain ever: Dhoni or Ganguly? I have some stats about both their captaincy: •Ganguly bet the Aussie side which had so many great players like hayden, vaugh, mcgrath, warne, brett lee, gilly, ponting,etc 1-1 in australia whereas Dhoni got whitewashed 4-0 to a much depleted Aussie team. •When ganguly was captain all teams including Zimbabwe & NZ were strong... now only England & South Africa are strong... Also 80 % of those 22 wins of Dhoni in test are played at home. whereas ganguly played more than 60% of his matches overseas. •Captaincy record outside India: Ganguly:11 wins in 28 matches & batting average 66.66 Dhoni:5 wins in 18 matches & batting average 31.85 •I repeat again,ganguly had double the batting average than Dhoni in overseas test matches & ganguly was no different, he too batted at no.5 or no.6 only. •Dhoni won India the first T20 World Cup, but later on he couldnt even take India to semis in the next 3 world cups followed by that.And 8-0 whitewashes to England & Australia, this can need make him a best captain. •Sachin tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Virender sehwag, Rahul dravid & Gautam gambhir-all these 5 batsman were at their best form of life during 2007-2011 & all of them average more than 50 in every calendar year in that period of 5 years in tests. Sachin himself averages 77 in the year 2010.And in the same period Dhoni became the captain of India & this exceptional average of these 5 batsmen took India to #1 ranking in tests. •completely opposite to the situation when ganguly became captain when everything was going wrong for the country be it form or team or fans or match fixing. azharudhin was the only man who had won 2 digit test matches for india before 2000. India was a weak team those days & ganguly suddenly comes & wins u 21 matches!!! •Before that 2001 india v australia series cricket was a forgotten sport in India after multiple failures & match fixing stuff. That series brought back the cricket craziness in the cricket crazy country where ganguly led India to beat Australia 2-1 in the test series which includes a legendary Kolkata test. •Dhoni is responsible for early retirement of ganguly in tests & ODIs,dravid in ODIs & Laxman in tests. He has problems with sehwag & gambhir. This is the main reason he is largely disliked by his own fellow countrymen. •He gives repeated oppurtunities to Rohit the Maggy Sharma, Jadeja who is now Sir & others like Murali vijay, Ishanth etc •Ganguly promoted Laxman to bat at no.3 in the follow on enforced innings of Kolkata test 2001..,& what happened after that is now in history... •Ganguly asked Javagal sreenath to come out of retirement & play in the 2003 World Cup. If Dhoni does that to any seniour world will end today. •With such a strong team Dhoni had when he became captain He should had done much better as a leader, he Didnt establish the dominance teams like Australia had in that same decade. •Ganguly captained in the era dominated by gilly, hayden warne, symonds, mcgrath, gillespie waugh, ponting, lara, shoaib, bond, flemming, flintoff, vaughan, ntini, inzy, jaysurya to name a few..n he took India from 8th to 3rd position, n dat too aftr azhars legacy, wen d team was totally amateur...he had d potential of turning average players into great ones like-viru, yuvi ,Zaheer , irfan, nehra,, bhajji, kaif and even this Dhoni. •Ganguly installed a aggressive attitude in the team,a spirit to win all matches.Legends like dravid & Laxman came to their prime form after he became captain. •Not to forget that dada was forced to retire when he was top form in tests. He made odi debut in 1992 & scored just 3, insulted by azharudhin, does not get a chance for 4 years & comes back with a bang in lords 1996 with a century in test debut.That was real attitude. •Ganguly was not just the captain of the ship, he was the man who built the ship. Dada made the ship and now all players are travelling in that ship, its easy to travel as compared to build the ship....
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:47:16 +0000
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