Possible Indian captains

[Sanz]

I dont think very highly of Rahul Dravid as Captain although most of it has to do it with his performance as stand-in captain. He may well surprise us.

IMO VVS Laxman can be a good captain as well, he has experience of leading his state side, he is level headed and well balanced individual. I dont know how it will work out because he still is ?? in ODIs.

Kumble, same as VVS.

Kaif, is too early to tell, although I rate him very highly but that is mainly due to his success in the u-19 World cup. U-19 and Internationals are different ball games.

Sachin - NO
Sehwag - NO

 

[lord_of_darkness]

If Mhmd Kaif can first work his way to secure his spot into the test team.. then he would be the ideal person to work on as captain of the indian team , from what i can recall he was the captain of the Indian U 19/21? World Cup winning squad which had likes of Y Singh i think.. and his captaincy skills showed well to guide them through.. why not?

 

[honestbharani]

I think if Ganguly is not a captain, then he won't make either the test or the ODI side, atleast on current form. So, that leaves the door open for someone like Kaif to come into the side. I would like to see VVS as captain. The India A players rated him very very high as a captain during those days. Even Gavaskar expressed his admiration for VVS as captain. Again, if Sourav is dropped from the ODI side, VVS could take his spot and can become the captain. But the wise choice would be to have Dravid lead the side and make VVS his deputy.

 

[Sehwag309]

I see Sehwag as future captain

 

[honestbharani]

I see Sehwag as future captain

There is little doubt about it, but do you think it won't affect his batting and more importantly, the way he approaches batting?

 

[Arjun]

IF the Challenger series is anything to go by, Sehwag is not the right man for the job.

 

[SpeedKing]

I dont think very highly of Rahul Dravid as Captain although most of it has to do it with his performance as stand-in captain. He may well surprise us.

IMO VVS Laxman can be a good captain as well, he has experience of leading his state side, he is level headed and well balanced individual. I dont know how it will work out because he still is ?? in ODIs.

Kumble, same as VVS.

Kaif, is too early to tell, although I rate him very highly but that is mainly due to his success in the u-19 World cup. U-19 and Internationals are different ball games.

Sachin - NO
Sehwag - NO

i so agree with you

 

[lord_of_darkness]

What about the keeper Kartik?

 

[honestbharani]

What about the keeper Kartik?

Did u mean to be sarcastic or u actually see potential in the lad?

 

[SpeedKing]

What about the keeper Kartik?

Oh yeah, there is him as well. Hopefully that was only a suggestion because he ain't got one o the safer spots in the team

 

[sledger]

dravid averages 15 whilst captain.........it seems to affect his batting way too much, we dnt want to bring down a great player like dravid and make him into the next ganguly.

i agree making dravid full time skipper woild more than likely adversely affect indias batting in a huge way and deprive them of their most important batsmen. i belive that the only alternative in the side is kumble, the rest simply do not fit the bill, kaif maybe suited to this role one day but no time soon, in my opinion at this stage in time ganguly is the only man for the job and should be persevered with. he is a great captain and a talented batsman, why change this system? its worked perfectly well, any failures or short comings have not been thr fault of ganguly directly, sacking him would be a sttupid move.

 

[Jono]

I'm 100% convinced that Kaif will lead India one day. Obviously now isn't the time, but IMO he has the tools to do so. Leading the Indian team is probably the toughest job in cricket, and it will be interesting to see how the young man will/would handle it.

As far as I'm concerned, if the situation arises where Ganguly is fired/dropped/quits etc. in the next 12 to 18 months, then Dravid should take it. But if Ganguly still has it for that long, Kaif should have cemented a spot in the team by then (then again, Ganguly is the one keeping him out (as well as Yuvraj apparently =-/)).

One thing is for sure, I don't want Sachin with the captaincy. He has the best cricket brain in the team, thats obvious. So he can contribute tactically without the immense pressure of being captain for the 3rd or 4th time. He clearly doesn't want it, why have a captain who doesn't want the job?

 

[lord_of_darkness]

Did u mean to be sarcastic or u actually see potential in the lad?

I see potential in the way as in he is new to the scene.. and he has probably not been affected by politics or any of that sort.. and giving the experienced peers around him etc they could mould him into a captain.. hes a capable batsmen and a good keeper.. he should look to cement his spot in the team..

 

[masterblaster]

It'd be bizarre if Ganguly gets dropped, Mohammad Kaif comes into the side and gets handed the captaincy.

 

[Arjun]

It'd be bizarre if Ganguly gets dropped, Mohammad Kaif comes into the side and gets handed the captaincy.

Half of that happened with South Africa. Graeme Smith was not even established in the side, yet, after the World Cup, he was appointed captain.

 

[honestbharani]

RSA have not been doing all that well, though.

 

[Arjun]

RSA have not been doing all that well, though.

All of it was due to Graeme Smith's freakish decision-making. In his firs tmatch, he had some medium-pacer opening the bowling with Ntini, with Pollock coming in well in the middle of the innings.

 

[SJS]

Kumble

He is the only one who, in a crisis, will bat sensibly, for the team, with no personal ambitions as considerations.

 

[Pratters]

He is the only one who, in a crisis, will bat sensibly, for the team, with no personal ambitions as considerations.

The same can be said for Dravid.

 

[SJS]

The same can be said for Dravid.

Of course Pratyush. I dont think, for a minute, Kumble should lead before Dravid.

I was just letting off my pent up fury at the way indians batted today and how sensibly Kumble batted by contrast.