The time has not come to compare Gambhir with Dhoni- Ganguly – Cricket News Update
Former Indian skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/G-Gambhir-c1447 despite the latter coming up trumps following in the final of the Indian Premier League last night, where his side beat the CSK by five-wickets.
In a tense affair at the Chepuak Stadium, Dhoni’s men set their opponents a daunting target of 191 - with Ganguly’s former employees overhauling the target in the last over of the match. The maiden IPL title has lifted Gambhir’s stature as a potential candidate to lead the national team in the future. However, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/LN-Onyango-c1844 has firmly put such suggestions to rest, claiming that Dhoni remains the best in the business, owing to his past record.
“Overall Dhoni is the best T20 captain now. Dhoni's record in this format is fantastic. And Gambhir is only captain of this year's IPL winning team (Kolkata Knight Riders). So I feel the time has not come to compare Gambhir with Dhoni as far as captaincy is concerned," Ganguly said.
"I don't think his (Gambhir) captaincy today was as good as in other games. He seemed under pressure as captain and when he went out to bat. I did not like his body language," Ganguly told a Bengali news channel.
Under the leadership of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746, and the 2011 World Cup.
Apart from his outstanding leadership stint at the international level, the 30-year-old has further guided CSK to contest in four of the five IPL finals to date - lifting the crown twice in 2009 and 2010 respectively.
The jury is still out on whether Dhoni is the right man for the longer version, considering Men in Blue’s abysmal record last year where they suffered back to back away whitewashes, against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c749 and Australia, by 4-0 margins.
Gambhir himself has endured a run drought in Test matches, which forced the management to name http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Kohli-c2737 as the deputy to Dhoni, following the youngster’s impressive showings in 2012 - leaving Ganguly to claim that there little to chose between the two.
"As a Test player, I feel there is a question mark over Dhoni. But Gambhir has also not done well in the last eight Tests," said Ganguly.
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