5 reasons why MS Dhoni is a better captain than Sourav Ganguly
One is a master tactician, one the coolest thing Indians have ever seen. One got to the nerves of opponent captains, made himself immortal with a swirling of shirt at cricket’s Mecca. The other wouldn’t give away any expression even when the World Cup is at stake, with nerves of steel.One showed India can win overseas, the other made Indians believe that they had a greater chance of winning, even when we needed an improbable amount of runs in the last over. Picking one over the other would be an injustice, but a lot of comparisons have been done already.Yet, if I could only pick one captain for my side and my life depended on it, it would be Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Here are 5 reasons why, to me, he is a better captain.
#5 Uncontroversial on and off the field
Dhoni has led the team during the most tumultuous of times. While Ganguly ensured that he cleaned Indian cricket’s image after the Azharuddin debacle, which is commendable in itself, Dhoni has managed to win in spite of massive upheavals in Indian cricket outside the ground. Administrator issues, match-fixing sting programs, corruption charges, board versus board tug-of-wars: Dhoni has managed to brainwash his team into believing all is well in the ground.
In fact, Indian teams, under Dhoni, have learnt the art of not worrying about controversies outside the field. While Ganguly was a firebrand, who managed to stir up storms and turn that into his team’s strength, Dhoni has a different style, that of reassurance and unbelievable calm. Over the years, the Indian cricket audiences have absorbed that from him, too. His tactics are unconventional and about the cause for most of the controversy that he creates on the field or outside, but, then, he handles the flak for them smoother than anyone.