Sourav Ganguly wants different captains for different formats of game - Cricket News Update
Former India captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c749 is practicing quite successfully.
"Time has come for the selectors to decide three captains for three formats. At the moment there is too much cricket, too many formats," said Ganguly speaking to media reporters on Tuesday.
The wicketkeeper batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028, has been leading India quite comfortably and successfully in all three formats of the game, before the team’s disastrous tour of England last summer. Dhoni and his Men in Blue not only failed to win even a
single game during the tour but also surrendered their number one Test team status.
The winless England tour was followed by a 4-0 Test series humiliation against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 succumbed to their second successive Test series whitewash last month, many former
India players and pundits started calling for Dhoni’s head and his axing from the side.
But India made a quick comeback by winning a couple of tri-series games against Australia and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 comprehensively, thanks to skipper Dhoni’s late blitz.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/LN-Onyango-c1844 also took a dig at Dhoni for his rotational policy.
"You will never get a team where all the eleven are outstanding fielders…Fielding is very very important but it is also about scoring runs in very very tough conditions", he told a news channel.
Dhoni yesterday supported his decision to rotate the senior batsmen saying that he was doing this to ensure good fielding standards. However, Ganguly was of the opinion that Dhoni would have to find the right balance in the squad, applying good captaincy
tactics rather than using a rotational policy.
"And I feel Dhoni has to balance that. He just can't jump and say these guys can't field so they are being rotated. If a guy who can field but averages 15 on the tour, what sense does it make? We have to find a way to balance players and make a team," he
reasoned.
His rotational policy has not been vindicated either, as India has won just two of their last six CB series matches, and drew another one, and they are currently bottom of the points table, with 10 points. Australia is leading the table with 14 points from
five matches while Sri Lanka has 11 points.
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