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Captaincy myth
by Suman Bhat on Mar 31, 2007 12:10 PM


Kapildev, gavasakr, Gaikwad, GR viswanath, anil kumble, kiran morem Farook Engkineer, supoorted dravid's captaincy
stat tells that dravid is doing equally good job when compared to ganguly's 5 yrs tenurs success.differernce in odi winning averagre is 1.5%
ganguly was captain for 5yrs a lengthier period and dravid is leading side from last 16 months. so more matches played under ganguly captaincy
can dravid lead side for equal no matches?
it was dravid kumble, laxman and sachin contributed lot to ganguly's success more than his leadership qulity. ganguly took the credit for hard work of other players but dravid atleast shared credit of victory with his teammates. dravid acceped his responsiblity for defeat infront of media Had ganguly ever did likethat? when team lost matches he was pushing dravid to conduct press briefs???
so achievement of five yrs can not be acheieved in 16 months still the diff between winning average is only 1%
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%u2026..

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

http://www.hindustantimes.in/htcricket/74_1959563.htm
why ganguly dhoni harbajan were not in sight of picture of ind dressing room which tv channels were showing all other players were in tears
ganguly used dalmiay when he had power of bcci and stayed as nonperforming captian for almost lat 2 yrs of his capaticy he did not deserve XII man in team
but when dalmiay lost power he ditched dalmiaya
dravid anchored ganguly's success as captain by his performance. ( gnaguly succss is contributions of sachin laxman kumble sewag NOT B'CUZ OF AGRESSION OR LEADERSHIP QUALIT)
BUT GANGULY ditched dravid and betryed team
early exit in WC prove dravid not good capatain or gnaguly recod did not harm
ganguly promoted groupism and he only thrown laxman and kumble out of odi team
Dravid is still no XII odi batsmanin in ICC ranking while ganguly is NO 57 in ICC odi ranking


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