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Battle of the Test captains
- Thread starter Xuhaib
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silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
Ganguly was the greatest captain in Indian history. At least, he is definatly up there. But Waugh has a great winning percentage, so Waugh.
nightprowler10
Global Moderator
Ganguly for mine.
Robertinho
Cricketer Of The Year
Steve Waugh by so much it sickens me that anyone has voted for Ganguly...
Barney Rubble
International Coach
Waugh by miles.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
Robertinho said:
Waugh is the better captain, but you are underestimating what Ganguly meant to Indian cricket. He was like to India what Taylor was to Australia. Really, he was.
BhupinderSingh
Banned
Steve Waugh
BoyBrumby
Englishman
I personally think this is actually quite a close call. I'm an absolutely huge fan of SRW, a supreme competitor & a splendid bloke too; he knew what being Australia's captain meant in a way the current incumbant fails to grasp. As a tactical captain tho I could never quite shake off the feeling he tended to be a bit over-cautious at times. He clearly liked to bat teams out of games & (to use a Benaudism) "close" the innings rather than declare. I can't think of any occasion when it cost him victory off the top of my head, but that may be at least partly due to the Arsenal at his disposal.
Ganguly, while possibly a less easy character to warm too, lead India to great success in the test arena & certainly had the better of their personal duels. Aside from the well-documented victories over Oz & Pakistan he also lead India to a drawn series over here, his team coming from behind to do so. That said, there seems to be no regression under Dravid thus far & Oz are certainly not quite the force they were under Waugh.
On that balance, it's SR Waugh for me, but only just.
Ganguly, while possibly a less easy character to warm too, lead India to great success in the test arena & certainly had the better of their personal duels. Aside from the well-documented victories over Oz & Pakistan he also lead India to a drawn series over here, his team coming from behind to do so. That said, there seems to be no regression under Dravid thus far & Oz are certainly not quite the force they were under Waugh.
On that balance, it's SR Waugh for me, but only just.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
BoyBrumby said:
They aren't? Ponting has only lost one series so far, and drew none. Thats a better record than Waugh.
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silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
Behold, the power of the edit button.BoyBrumby said:A draw for mine....
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Well it's probably desperately Anglocentric of me, but number of Ashes lost under Waugh: 0.silentstriker said:Behold, the power of the edit button.
To take a more all-emcompassing view Oz very nearly came unstuck against the Banglas too, that doesn't scream invincible to me.