Ganguly Back on Top: Right or Wrong???

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We Need to Groom Young Blood

I had expressed my views on Captain earlier. I personally feel, that keeping Dravid as a Vice Captain is not good. We need to put a thinking, aggressive and intelligent young player in Vice Captain's slot now, so that when Ganguly is gone, we have an experienced person available to lead the side. Captain's role, attitude and approach to the game is very important.

The only problem with the current lot is that they are not consistant. Making a bowler Captain has always been debatable issue for two reasons. Firstly bowlers specially fast bowlers are more prone to injuries and may not be available to lead the side at crucial time. Secondly a bowler as a Captain most of the time eith under bowls himself or over bowls himself. There have been successful Captains who had been in the team as a bowler alone.

Any new batsman who performs consistantly for one or two seasons should be appointed Vice Captain who should take over from Ganguly whenever he leaves, whether it is before world cup or after that. Ganguly should not remain in the team only as a skipper alone.

I feel some times, that a Wicket keeper makes a good captain, as he is the person who watches each batsman and bowler's performance most closely for the entire duration of the match. And if a wicketkeeper can be a good batsman and have an aggressive attitude, then probably he should make a good captain.
 
Ganguly's Performance

As fas as the stats are concerend, Ganguly is probably sliglty ahead of Azhar.
Cant compare to Rahul as he is not captained as so many matches.

It takes years for any Captain to mature and lead a team...see any country.

He is the best Indian Captian so far...Azhar was good until he got involved in the Scam.

Ganguly can be compared to Mike Bearely of England, Who was not a fanatstic player but excellent captain for his country.

How many teams have gone to Aus and came back with a Draw(and the unforgettble Pak tour), that speaks for man and his leadership skills.
 
I don't think that would be Fair Comparision

antil-sunpatiya said:
As fas as the stats are concerend, Ganguly is probably sliglty ahead of Azhar.
Cant compare to Rahul as he is not captained as so many matches.

It takes years for any Captain to mature and lead a team...see any country.

He is the best Indian Captian so far...Azhar was good until he got involved in the Scam.

Ganguly can be compared to Mike Bearely of England, Who was not a fanatstic player but excellent captain for his country.

How many teams have gone to Aus and came back with a Draw(and the unforgettble Pak tour), that speaks for man and his leadership skills.
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I don't think we can really compare Ganguly with Mike Brearly of England. Ganguly has been successful while leading the best in business, while Kapil was leading only the utility players and won the world cup. So was the case with Mike Brearly. When he took over from Ian Bothom in Australia, England was trailing 2-0, and then they came out and leveled the series and I think won also. As against it, Ganguly's case has been otherway round i.e. gaining the lead and then loosing it. Performance in World Cup and Australia were due to combined effort of the team, while in Pakistan we were playing a team under transformation. The same Pak Team gave us drubbing at our own home ground with all our talent available. Ganguly is the most successful captain we have had that is a fact, but is he the best in the business? In my opinion he is best among the lot available today.

The need is to groom some one for 2007 now. With the current form and continuing failure with the bat, keeping Ganguly only to lead the side is a luxary India can illaffford. Ganguly needs to earn his place in side in order to lead it. It is unfair for those budding youngester who have been consistently performing at Domestic and Junior Level only to get ignored to accomodate the stars of the past. I feel Gautam Gambhir is aggressive enough to be in one day side and so is the case of Shikhar Dhawan.

While we have not been able to solve the problem of the opening pair, Dravid's continuous failure in Zimbabve is another cause of concern. May be our senior players like Sehwag, Dravid and Ganguly need a little rest probably to concentrate on their other business activities.
 
Ganguly

The leadership issue is never easy.

Leader should be able to motivate the players and command respect, and he has that of his team.

As long as the team performs as a Unit, Individual performances will not make a big difference.

Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting have the best players in the world but to make them champions is a different matter.
 
The Big Show: Strategies and Plans

With India making it to finals of a tournament once again, the question arises of their loosing streak in the finals. Having seen the New Zeland in two games, it clearly emerges that they do have a little advantage over India specially when the Indian Top Batting order is struggling to get runs. It may be a good idea to work out some thing different than the opposition expects us to do and thus gain advantage of suprise. There are two players who are probably unknown to the NZ think tank and they are RP Singh and Suresh Raina. One may laugh at the argument of including these two players in the final XI specially when they have not had much outing in the Zimbabwe so far.

Our problem is the Opening stand. Out of the four matches, only once the opening pair had been able to put on 50 plus partnership. Dravid has been struggling at No 4 position and that is the cause of biggest worry for he is too good a batsman to be dropped from the side. We don't have an option of dropping Ganguly at this point of time unless he himself opts out. With Shane Bond firing all cylinders, it may well be a good idea going with an extra batsman and using the skills of part time bowler to bowl those crucial 10 overs. Some suggestions for Indian think tank:

Unorthodox as it may look, NZ itself opened the bowling with a spinner at now less a stage than a world cup match and not only it surprised every one, it was fairly successful. Harbhajan has been shadow of himself so far and purely on the performance may not deserve the place in the playing XI. Murali Karthik had been out of ideas in the only match he has played. Now the choice is left in sharing 10 overs among Sehwag, Yuvraj, Ganguly himself and Suresh Raina if he finds the place in playing XI.

My choice of playing XI would be as under:

Ganguly
M S. Dhoni
Kaif
Yuvraj
Sehwag
Dravid
Raina
J P Yadav
Irfan Pathan
Ashish Nehra
R. P. Singh
Venugopal Rao (Super Sub) to replace RP Singh or Nehra.

One would wonder as to why one would bring in the most successful opener to the middle order. I feel, Dhoni is in a good form at this time and can play fast bowlers fairly well. It is the matter of just one good knock that a batsman of Sehwag's calibre would be firing once again. Sehwag himself considers middle order as the right place for himself, so let us give him the opportunity.

While bowling, I would start with Pathan from one end and Sehwag from another end. Bowl first 10 overs and then bring in Ashish as first change from one side and R P Singh from other end. Last 6 overs of the innings should be bowled by Pathan and Nehra. Depending upon how one performs, balance of 5 overs can be shared between four part time bowlers. I am sure, while it may look absurd plan, it may just surprise the Kiwis and may well work wonderfully.

I however don't think Chappell and Ganguly would be thinking in the same manner. Let us see how they perform on Tuesday.

At this time I can only say Good Luck to Team India.
 
India wins the final !!!

Sir, Umeed per Duniya kayam hai. Lets back our boys 100%.

Sehwag, Ganguly or Rahul will fire up tomorrow.

Bond Ka band bajegaa kal. :)

India is going to win the Final...but I will be at work and not watching the boys win. :(

Venugopal is excellent, Yadav is good too...Dhoni is performing well.

This unit will rock in 6 months.
 
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Sehwag does not deserve a place in one day squad. he is a very good test player but he has to prove a lot as far as the ODI is concerned.

Ganguly toh team me rakhne layak hee nahi hai...although he used to be my favorite balle-baj but all that is now history.
 
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