comparing to steve and fleming, ganguly was a bad captian, but he was the best indian captian. The main duty of a captian is first to motivate the team which he did to the best, then fielding setup. he excelled in this too.
ganguly is jealous and do not want his records / stat spoil as successful captain and great 10lars want to become captain both are working against dravid who is doing better job than ganguly. WC defeaat was dirty politics of 2 ex captains.both will play for self, records and sponsers and make sure team will loose so tosay dravid not good captain. dravid is better captain than ganguly. stat tells that.
RE:dravid is better player captaind than ganguly
by AAA on Jul 07, 2007 07:19 PM
Personally I don't like Ganguly's game, but frankly he is better than dravid as a captain. Don't try to defend dravid by posting crappy comments. Grow up
RE:dravid is better player captaind than ganguly
by Sanjeev Verma on Jul 07, 2007 08:56 PM
I do not that Ganguly is better captain than Dravid. Look at the records and you will get the answer. Dravid has been captain for a very short time and it is not fair to compare him with Ganguly. Ganguly was lucky to have Tendulkar and Kumble in their top form. Also, Ganguly owe lot of success to outstanding performance of Dravid and Lakshman. I think that currently we have a number of young players and they are under the able leadership of Dravid.
RE:dravid is better player captaind than ganguly
by Kiran More on Jul 08, 2007 04:11 AM
Ganguly has been able to make sure team Indian doesn't over-rely on Sachin or any other player for that matter. That was not the case with his predesessor.
RE:dravid is better player captaind than ganguly
by Sujoy Majumdar on Jul 08, 2007 11:10 AM
Why do you remain so naive? Even my seven year old son does not believe in the excuses thrown up by Dravid as the cause of the early WC exit!By your logic Tendulkar should have tried to do the same in WC 2003!Dont forget the old proverb-a bad man quarrels with his tools!
ganguly succes as captain is b ' cuz of hard work of dravid, sachin, laxman kumble srinath not b ' cuz of leadership qualites like taking out shirt, yelling at bowlers, making unnessary action, arguring with umpires promiting groupism etc,, ganguly was captain for 5 yrs so is most su ccesxs ful but in odis dravid is most successful captian withing 2 yrs achireved what ganguly secured in 5 yrs. world cp debacle was b'cuz of dirty politics of 2 super star and backstage politics whole country knew ab out it team ind won odi and test series without ganguly and tendulka under dravid's captaincy & dravid anchoredsuccess for ganguly as success ful captian. instead of reciprocating ganuly ditched dravid, dravid is better captain than ganguly
Rediff do not have many paid journalists or columnists, very few and you can count by name. They ask rookies like the writer of this article, to write stuffs which might be crap, however, sounds sensational. They never had the credibility or elegance, but just like majority of media in India "power without accountability" (the famous Bedi statement), power being solely because Rediff is a form of media, and definitely not because it's got respect. The media in this country, specifically the people who are so called columnist for Cricket, are basically uneducated journalists, like this columnist. Rediff does not even hire them, they hire college guys or people like you and me, who do not have professional writing experience, however, just a point of view. That is not enough to write a column in a Newspaper, but in blogs. This way Rediff saves money and also can create cheap publicity about itself, publishing articles without any accountability. If we were wise, we would deject the article and would ignore it. But we are not. So we put our point of view too and making the Rediff's marketing ploy a success. Rediff don't care about the authenticity of the story as long as it's read. I am sure so many reviews of this article has made it a success and this kind of articles will come again later. Rediff is biased and cheap at issues no doubt. But,if a newspaper is blind about its accountibility, that's a major issue and in the present circumstances no can rectify it but Rediff itsel
RE:Re:Ganguly
by S Narain on Jul 07, 2007 09:56 PM
Don'tbe upset buddy!!!
Indians are crab,...
They would never be honest to accept good & would be always jealous of good .
It is day light clear that Gangu was a far shrewd,intelligent and a great Captain.
Only Jingoistic,parochial & petty minded ,supporters of Dravid wud not accept it.
How the Chappel ,Powar lobby with Spineless Dravid tried to sabotage Sourav,but he is back & it is a big slap for all those Indians ,who could not digest his success
... played dirty politics ,tried their best to insult him.
RE:Re:Ganguly
by Suneel kumar on Jul 08, 2007 02:18 PM
you are right Mr. Gupta. Rediff is one of worst. I was not writing my views until recently. Some times few comments tempt me to reply. I am also trying to avoid Rediff from my regular news sites. Better I stick to Hindu, Yahoo and BBC.
RE:SAURAV GANGULY IS GREAT CAPTAIN
by Sanjeev Verma on Jul 07, 2007 08:25 PM
I think that India won an overseas Test series against WI after a long time. Prior to that, India had won an overseas against Zimbabwe and that too after several years. This is definitely commendable. Also, India won first ever test in SA under Dravid. I think that these victories are important because they came without Tendulkar. GFanguly was undoubtdedly a good capatin but Dravid is not bad either and my feeling is that he may be evben more successful than Ganguly. Remember that Azhar was the most successful captain before Ganguly.
RE:SAURAV GANGULY IS GREAT CAPTAIN
by Sanjeev Verma on Jul 07, 2007 08:35 PM
It is interesting to note that we have not played not that many test matches under Dravid in India. Under Dravid, Team India is still very young with so many young players. Dravid did not have the luxury to have Tendukar and Kumble in top form. However, he has given permanent position to Yuvraj in the team. Lately, we have seen a number of young players being inducted in the team. Wait and you will see a strong team emerging under Dravid. I think that India will do very well in England and after that Dravid will be retained as a capatain against Australia and Pakistan also.
India and Indians would not succeed in world life might be in cricket and other sports as team and as well as in politics,science,economics,art & culture everywhere because of diversity of caste,state or zone,relegion and politics. Only few individual would succeed in their life but not as a whole. So earn your bread and fame.
RE:India and Indians would not succeed enough in future world life
by S Narain on Jul 07, 2007 09:56 PM
Wake up buddy!!!
Indians are crab,...
They would never be honest to accept good & would be always jealous of good .
It is day light clear that Gangu was a far shrewd,intelligent and a great Captain.
Only Jingoistic,parochial & petty minded ,supporters of Dravid wud not accept it.
How the Chappel ,Powar lobby with Spineless Dravid tried to sabotage Sourav,but he is back & it is a big slap for all those Indians ,who could not digest his success
... played dirty politics ,tried their best to insult him.
Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly have been left out of the 30 probables that India's selectors picked for the Twenty20 World Cup to be held in South Africa in September.
Considering the specific demands of the Twenty20 format the selectors have emphasised on youth and fitness. Some of those included are relatively unknown.
A final squad of 15 will be announced on August 5.
List of probables
Virender Sehwag, Suresh Raina, Mohammad Kaif, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni, Dinesh Karthik, Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan, Sreesanth, Manoj Tiwary, Ajit Agarkar, Karan Goel, Zaheer Khan, RP Singh, Ishant Sharma, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rajesh Pawar, Piyush Chawla, Harbhajan Singh, Joginder Sharma, Rohit Sharma, Gautam Gambhir, Munaf Patel, Niranjan Behera, Praveen Kumar, Aniruddh Srikkanth, Ramesh Powar, Robin Uthappa, Niraj Patel
Now tell me who is your captaincy choice here? Yuvraj or Dhoni or Mohammad Kaif or Sehwag?
Wait till the end of 2007 if you are not happy with the debacle of WC 07,you will realize the difference between Dravid and Ganguly as captain.Dravid would not play any test serease against Australia and present full strength England in England and hungry Pakisthan in our soil.He only played against good team like South Africa and Pakisthan and result India lost both serease.Forget about half strength England(drown),Srilanka(won) and weak West Indies(we could won that serease atleast 3-0).
In ODI we praise win against Pakisthan,South Africa and also drown against South Africa.
RE:Not prediction
by Sanjeev Verma on Jul 07, 2007 08:30 PM
You are wrong--SL was not half strength. It included players like Murali and Vaas. Ganguly owes most of his success to Dravid, who has the best overseas record amongst past and present Indian players.
RE:Not prediction
by Sanjeev Verma on Jul 07, 2007 08:28 PM
Do not forget that WI was not that bad since it included Lara. Prior to that India had an overseas win against Zimbabwe and that too after a gap of so many years. On any count, WI team is thousand time better than Zimbabwe.
