Ganguly -5 yrs Team won 76 odis out of 147 matches when ganguly was captain
out of 147 matches India won 76 (51.70%) lost 66 (44.90%) Tie or no results 5(3.40%) won 74 (50.34%)
But Saurav captained 34 ODI against minnows Bangla Desh Zimbabwe Namibia Kenya Netherlands Canada etc% ganguly had advantage of leading team for lenghthier period and Nos of matches are more
Dravid %u2013 16 months Team won 33 odis out of 65 ( including this WC matches) when Dravid was captian
India won 33 (50.77%) lost 28 (43.08%)no result/ tie 4 (6.15%)
But Dravid captained ot 65 matches captained only two ODI against minnows i.e. Bangladesh and Bermuda and odi winning average differen very just 1% when compared dravids 's 16 months captaincy with ganguly's 5yrs success. even one win would have taken team to S.legue and there was no change in captaincy early exit from WC meanc to prove dravid not good captain and ganguly%u2019s recored did not harm. . Back stage politics who names are forefront in captaincy race??? Reasons why Dravid should stay captain
Who is responsible for India's defeat? While just two per cent blamed the BCCI, eight per cent blamed Rahul Dravid, five per cent Greg Chappell with an overwhelming majority of 85 per cent blaming the entire team for the poor show Retain Dravid as captain, Sachin should quit ODIs Should Rahul Dravid be replaced as the captain of the Indian team? And the answer was in the negative with 86 per cent saying he should not be removed with only nine per cent saying that he should be replaced. The rest five per cent did not have any opinion. http://www.cricketnext.com/news/retain-dravid-as-captain-sachin-should-quit-odis/24099-13-2.html ODIs, Dravid is again on par with India's best despite the team losing its way in the later half of 2006, and then in the World Cup. Indian captains in ODIs
Names Matches Won Lost Drawn/Tied Won% Kapil Dev 74 40 32 2 54.05% M Azharuddin 173 89 76 6/2 51.45% SR Tendulkar 73 23 43 6/1 31.51% SC Ganguly 146 76 65 &nbs p; 5 52.05% R Dravid 65 33 28 4 50.77% http://www.hindustantimes.in/htcricket/74_1959563.htm
sunil gavaskar, kapildev, A gaikwad, GR vishwanath, have supported dravid continue as capatian
Winning or defeat in matches depends on performance of XI players irrespective of captain, coach, pitch, stretagy and conditions. Bangladesh and SL victory against India is best example some players delieberatley palyed negative cricket and betryed team and and dtiched dravid.and betrayed team. If players are not ready to support team cause what capatain can do for that It is up to individual players to deciede that play for team then support captain? ganguly wasted more balls than runs he scored poor fielding and poor running wkt and unwilling to take singles cost more runs to team also created pressure on batsman on other side He did not bother to try and hold an easy catch during agarkar%u2019s bowling 60 runs in 130 balls how it can help a team cause?? Ganguly had one stage for having batted through nearly 11 overs to make a mere 7 runs. Yuvraj Scored 47 runs in 10 overs India Scored 191 in 50 overs Ganguly Scored 66 runs in 21 overs wasted more balls than runs he scored., Yuvraj Scored 47 runs in 10 overs Rest of team scored 50 in 19 overs Against burmada Ganguly scored 89 in 114 balls wasted 25 balls that is around 4.6 runs per over... compare it to the indian teams average of 8.26 Ganguly was struggling while batting against burmuda, and got 3 lifes ganguly in whole faced 266 balls nearly 50 overs and make only 162 runs, the how much pressure built on incoming bats man doesn't matter india wins or Lose Ganguly RETURN WAS HYPED BY MEDIA BUT HE WAS NOT IN TEAM UNIFROM ALSO AND HE DID NOT ARRIVE WITH TEAM?? The picute which tev channel shown after ind defeat in Sl . all players were in tears but no sight of ganguly dhoni and harbajan Ganguly was not in pictue? Harbajan singh went wktless in 2 matches dhoni failed with bat was laughing when he dro[[ed catch VC captain sachin failed completely with bat ( there were not sight in picture which tv channel shown when India lost ot SL all other players are in tears
zahirkahn was wktless in firest match and in he took 2 wkts against SL but he gave more extra runs b'cuz of erratic bowling.
coz Tendulkar scored a duck, Ganguly 7 in 23 balls and Yuvraj 6? Dhoni 0?( match against srilanka) the players who played all 3 matchs Except dravid munaf yuvraj nobody has shown commitment? When t v channels showed picture of ind dressroom after team defeat against Sl all players were in tears. Surprisingly dhoni ganguly and harbajan were out of sight in picture
hi friends i am great fan of sachin unlike others.what happend when he played for auatralia when he was in 19s since then he got india single handedly.is there any meaning for records.If he made records dint those runs help india to WIN the match .Did sachin kept these runs in his bank .Is there any meaning that sachin is playing for records.IAN CHAPPEL HAS NO SENSE.JUST his bad time and in that time atleast the other players shud pick.WELL let him be given some time then he will prove again
In the fallout from India's early demise at the World Cup one of the major decisions will concern the future of Sachin Tendulkar.
Before anybody else makes a decision on what will happen to Tendulkar the player himself has to have a good long look in the mirror and decide what he's trying to achieve in the game. At the moment he looks like a player trying to eke out a career; build on a glittering array of statistics. If he really is playing for that reason and not to help win as many matches as he can for India then he is wasting his time and should retire immediately.
When you think that for a decade Brian Lara and Tendulkar went head to head in a wonderful battle of stroke play to establish who was the best batsman in the world, they are now worlds apart in effectiveness.
Lara's quick-footed tip toe through a terrific innings against a good Australian bowling attack when the rest of the West Indies top order succumbed easily was in direct contrast to Tendulkar's stumbling effort in the crucial Sri Lanka match. The amazing thing about Lara's brilliant career is the fact that he hasn't changed his style at all over seventeen years. This is a credit to his technique and mental strength, as the aging process generally makes a player more progressively conservative.
Tendulkar hasn't worn as well; his last three or four years have been a shadow of his former self. His double century at the SCG in January 2004 was a classic case of a great player really struggling. He came to the crease out of form and despite amassing all those runs and batting for in excess of ten hours he was no closer to recapturing his best touch than he was when he started out. It was a tribute to his determination but it was a sad sight to see; there are enough average players around that you don't won't to see a class one reduced to that level.
Tendulkar hasn't been as lucky as Lara; the Indian batsman has suffered a lot of injuries in this period where his play has deteriorated and there is nothing that melts your mental approach quicker than physical handicaps. Lara has been relatively free from injury and he certainly doesn't have the weight of numbers riding on his shoulders that Tendulkar does.
However, the population of the Caribbean might be small but they are extremely demanding. Despite all the fuss and the odd controversy that has surrounded Lara's career he has remained himself; this is my game and that is how I play. For whatever reason Tendulkar hasn't been able to maintain his extremely high standards for the last few years and unless he can find a way to recapture this mental approach he's not doing his team or himself any favours.
If Tendulkar had found an honest mirror three years ago and asked the question; "Mirror, mirror on the wall who is the best batsman of all?" It would've answered; "Brian Charles Lara." If he asked that same mirror right now; "Mirror, mirror on the wall should I retire?" The answer would be; "Yes."
RE:tendulkar should retire
by Suman Bhat on Mar 30, 2007 10:19 PM Permalink
ganguly media managers are doing overtime job and captainging for dravid and sachin should be out and ganguly make captainganguly wasted more balls than runs he scored poor fielding and poor running wkt and unwilling to take singles cost more runs to team also created pressure on batsman on other side He did not bother to try and hold an easy catch during agarkar%u2019s bowling 60 runs in 130 balls how it can help a team cause?? Ganguly had one stage for having batted through nearly 11 overs to make a mere 7 runs. Yuvraj Scored 47 runs in 10 overs India Scored 191 in 50 overs Ganguly Scored 66 runs in 21 overs wasted more balls than runs he scored., starting with India's tour to Pakistan in early 2006 %u2014 India have played 41 One-day internationals (ODIs). Tendulkar has played in 26 of those and averaged 44.67 over this period with an impressive strike rate of 83.15 and six fifties and three centuries to boot. It might seem like there is no room for complaint here.
However, the problem is that hardly any of Tendulkar's big innings have come against the best bowling attacks in trying conditions. In three matches against the Australians, he has scores of 12, 4 and 10.
Against the South Africans in their country he hasn't done much better with scores of 35, 2, 1 and 55. Two of the three hundreds have come against weak West Indian attacks on flat tracks in Malaysia and India and the third against Pakistan on a belter of a pitch. An average of almost 39 over 36 innings is only a touch below Dravid's career average and the strike rate of 75.28 is healthy too.
With 13 fifties and one century over this period, he hasn't exactly been a flop. Also, unlike Tendulkar, Dravid scored one fifty in the two ODI innings he played in South Africa and another against the Aussies on the nippy Mohali wicket during the Champions Trophy.
Sourav has played only nine innings since his return, but he has clocked up six fifties and a 48 for an average of 63.63, way above his overall career average.
The strike rate of 71.89 may be lower than you would expect from a stroke-player of his class, but is hardly something to be ashamed of. The only caveat one may have is that six of the nine innings have been on easy Indian pitches and against relatively weak attacks like West Indies or Sri Lanka minus Vaas and Muralitharan.
Of the remaining three, two have been against Bangladesh and Bermuda. wasted more balls than runs he scored
FMCG major Videocon Limited has dropped their ads featuring Rahul Dravid and Mahendra Singh Dhoni after Team India's dismal show at the Cricket World Cup.
Videocon Chairman and Managing Director Venugopal Dhoot told NDTV that the ads were dropped because the people were unhappy.
He said till the cricketers perform "they are of no use to us".
"We won't be putting their ads on TV and print, we will use Shahrukh Khan instead," he said.
He said the company had already spent half of its Rs 20 crore World Cup advertising budget and that the advertisements would be suspended only for a short while.
He added that the company had not withdrawn the contract with Dravid and Dhoni.
