Tuesday, November 18, 2008

MSD: Captain Cool & perfect

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India has had a spate of excellent captains, starting with tiger pataudi, and now dhoni leads from the front, reports satish Chapparike

Nine Indian fielders surrounding an Australian batsman in a test match is not a common scene. After Zaheer Khan cleaned up Brett Lee in the second innings of Australia in the Mohali Test, it looked like a complete rout. Nine Indian fielders surrounded incomer Mitchell Johnson. An umbrella field to wrap up Australian innings! The man in command: MS Dhoni The Indian cricket team looked like Steve Waugh’s mighty Australians or Clive Lloyd's good old West Indian Titans. That too, facing the Mighty Aussies!

Sachin Tendulkar’s world record, Saurav Ganguly’s memorable century, Amit Mishra’s dream debut, Gautam Gambir’s block buster, Ishant Sharma-Zaheer Khan-Harbhajan Singh's perfect combination in bowling… in the end, in terms of runs the biggest cricketing victory for Indian team in history. The Mohali Test. This match produced a bundle of records. More than that, this victory showed us the new face of the Indian team. Though Indians looked a little pale in the Bangalore Test, they fired back in Mohali.

After the match, Australian captain Ricky Ponting himself admitted “India played more aggressively and got the upper hand from the first session of the first day. They looked like a entirely different outfit in this match, and we failed badly in all the departments. The Indian team truly deserves this fantastic victory." It was wholesome appreciation.

The way India played at Mohali surely shows that the evolutionary process in Indian cricket, in personal and as well as team level, has reached great heights. The stand-in Captain MS Dhoni lead from the front and gave some strong signals to everyone. He especially showed his real aggressive and compact character as a Captain. No doubt team Captain Anil Kumble’s dressing room guidance contributed to this also. But the way Dhoni carried himself in the Test gave a hint of the emergence complete captain in Indian cricket. As the ODI and T-20 team captain, he has already shown the world he is one of the best. In the real test of cricket, in Tests too he now looks like a perfect leader.

If we go back to history, India has produced some outstanding cricket captains, like Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, Ajit Wadekar, Kapil Dev, Saurav Ganguly and Anil Kumble. We have seen, so to say, from ‘Tiger’ to ‘Royal Bengal Tiger’. In the early seventies when ‘Tiger’ Pataudi took over Indian captaincy he was barely 21 years old. But he led in India in 40 Test matches and was the most celebrated Indian captain of post Independence era. He was the man who brought out India from a sea of the defeat and made sure that the Indian cricket team can win a Test.

He brought self belief in Indian cricket. His successor Ajit Wadekar also pumped lot of self belief by winning test matches in England and West Indies. Then came the era of Kapil Dev, the greatest all rounder India has ever produced, and this man leading India in the 1983 World Cup victory electrified India and revolutionised Indian cricket. He was 'captain courageous'. Though as Test captain his records are not so impressive, he was a true champion and a natural player and a great leader. That made him stand apart as captain and he changed Cricket in India for ever. After Kapil, as a Test captain, Mohammed Azaruddin had a wonderful stint, but match fixing allegations took all his credits away. And yet, we cannot ignore his achievements.


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IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and
Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).


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