Indian fans, they just love cricket but i am ashamed they just don't know cricket. They don't know that its a game played by 11 players supported by a coaching staff, They don't know that captain is the one calling the shots on the field , they don't know that no matter what a captain plans ultimatly its the players who have to execute it on the field. If Australia wins that does not only shows that ponting is a good captain but it shows that Australia as a team is superb with a good leader at its helm. As cricket is a team game there are lots of dependencies and thus cursing one guy for a defeat is never justified . I think when ponting took over from waugh , ponting was one of the most terrible captains but still his team never lost just because his team was so good that they could easly execute any startergy. Whereas if you have a look at newzeland they have only one skipper for i don know since when . stephen fleming is a terrific captian , even though his team never performed that well in the late 90s and early 2000 still he was retained as captian. i just want to say that winning or loosing is not caused by any one person it needs a collective effort of the whole team, so we should not blame one guy for this loss.Agreed Dravid made some mistakes but then everyone else does it too even the best of captains make mistakes but they get over shadowed when the team wins . If you are talking about comparison between 2003 and 2007 then you must remember that it was not only ganguly's captaincy that won us the matches , sachin's batting , our pace attack, even our fielding with yuvi and kaif being there was exellent .. Atleast i am suer dravid would have never asked anyone to play badly.. if sachin made a duck this time around and at the same time yuvi got runout and dhoni played such a sick stroke then I don't think any captain in the world could have done anything. So guys stop blaming anyone , its all created by media to keep people busy with this shit ..We should agree it was a collective failure of the team and captain is included in it .
