Is Rahul Dravid the best captain in India has seen in many years?
341010
well one cannot guess whos the best cap simply on the performance of the team.certainly rahul has applied himself well and shown that he is a good cap but its jst early 2 decide whether he is the best.Remember we r comparing him with gr8 like kapil dev,s.gavaskar,azar,ganguly .so lets see how he does in future.
304909
APART FROM THE RATINGS..\nI FEEL DRAVID IS THE NUMBER ONE..\nHE ALWAYS BEEN IN TOP TEN. FOR A DECADE..\nTHE NO.1  FIVE YEARS AGO IS NOWHERE NOW..\nBUT DRAVID WAS IN TOP 10THEN.STILL HE IS IN TOP 10.\nAFTER 5 YEARS HE WILL BE IN TOP 10.
557025
rahul dravid as he is the best so no doubt that he is most dependable cri of the whole universe
655743
Yes,Gangully is a better player than other player's like Sreesanth, R.P.Singh, Raina etc. He is the most successful captain than Dravid and other captains. The selector's and captain Rahul Dravid give no chance to Gangully for doing better. They are saying that there is no need for Gangully.But he is made the Team India. I think he is enough capability to return cricket. The captain and selector's not give chance because he is a Bengali boy.But one day will when bengali's are ruled in India then they see the selector's and the other community. I think and whished that Gangully will return to Indian Team like a Tiger of Bengal.
832943
Not at this moment as his form is not good enough. He scored only 6 today and that’s not the best of him. But he is capable and need quality time to be in the groove again. On the other part he is a born leader, as I had known him closely when I was a junior in our college St.Xaviers and I can assure you all that he will be back, but not now, not at least as a makeshift replacement. \nBut I agree with you that his sheer presence is needed if India has to have a chance to de something in the World Cup. \n\nA talented (you cannot deny that) mean person who cares only about him and nothing else heads this present team. Remember our present captain was not even considered to be agile enough (He was the Mr. Go Slow for all the other teams) to be a part of the national team in the ODI's. It was Ganguli who came up with the idea to play him as a wicket-keeping batsman, just to accommodate him in the team. He knew that there was talent and it was just quality time that was needed at that point of time. That’s captaincy, that’s friendship and that’s team spirit. And what was the return that he got in his difficult times, from the person whom he defended so vigorously? The sheer prospect of getting the captains band revealed his true character and he stabbed Ganguli from the back at the first opportunity he got. He and his coach together with some of the selectors then tactfully slaughtered Jaheer, Nehra, Balaji, Laxman, kumble for no reason at all. (You can add Irfan, Yuvraj and Harbhajan in this list as they are the next) They destroyed the team, they destroyed the spirit, and they destroyed the passion that we had after a long long time. We will never again see an Indian arrogant enough to wave his shirt from a balcony at the heart of London, nor we will ever see the wonderful moments that we all had during the amazing run that we had during his tenure. Everything is lost and it will never come back again. There are broken hearts everywhere and it can never be mended. Viva the Captain, Viva the coach; you are successful enough to push us back to the stone ages. \n  \nFor someone’s sources in the forum – We are not dirty niggers and we do not care if you hate us all at Lancashire as long as we have the courage to defend our Motherland. This is what happened in actual and trust me more people will be proud to be associated with such person who can do that at point blank and end up hated rather than submitting pride for our nation before foreigners to be loved.
900840
well its a very tough task to choose who is the best middle order batsman among those three names. well i guess it will be dravid purely because he has bailed out his team from danger in both oneday and testmatches in comparision to the other two, playing in the middle order.
410485
In my opinion it's Rahul Dravid, but as per the statistics of the recent matches it's Dhoni.
456345
Never say best, he is one of the best.\n\nIndia has lots of talents.
953366
saurav ganguly for his aggressiveness, rahul for his equanimity, ricky for his temprement, i think we need a guy with all these qualities to be the best captain.
498602
Ganguly as far as records.Dravid now.He is leading the team well
939113
Sometimes it is true. Brian Lara is the captain.\nAnd everyone looks to the Captain for inspiration. If the Captain is not in good touch. it could affect the teams morale.
837849
Although Tendulkar is far from his best he is definitely not over. Shewag is still dangerous, but he needs to be dropped once to get him some sense! Dravid is still the best Indian batsman. Yuvraj is too good not to have in the team. Kaif is a solid player, he will be the future Dravid, If only they let him play enough! Raina has not impressed me enough. Irfan should be kept as a bowler only. Please stop sending him 1 down!
496919
i guess it should be Rahul Dravid, who motivates the team and at the same time scores well setting an example for his teammates, he has the best captaincy record (more than 65%). So he takes the prize!
953539
One can't pin the blame only on Dravid's captaincy. Its a collective irresponsibility. What about the selectors? Why is Sachin in the team...for his current form or for the past records? Why is Shehwag in the team? What is Kaif doing? What role is Pathan's? \nThe much hyped coach also seems to be clueless. Experimenting has reached comic to hopeless proportions. The amount of aggression the coach shows in front of the camera seems to be missing in what he coaches...\nAs far as the players are concerned...no one seems to be in form except an occasional flash in the pan!\nOne billion people, and tons of money with BCCI. Youth hungry for livelihood and career. Can't the BCCI start a grass-root development program and start identifying talent. Cant BCCI make bouncy pitches exclusively for practise ahead of SA/NZ tours?\nAny discussion about cricket has become an intellectual masturbation in the country!!!!
588139
NO DOUBT ITS RAHUL DRAVID.HE CAN PLAY IN ALL CIRCUMSTANSES.IN TEST OR IN ODI HE PERFORMS ALWAYS BEST V/S ALL CONTRY.WE HAVE HEARD OF GOING OUT OF FORM OF PLAYERS,BUT HAVE NEVER HEARD THAT HE IS OUT OF FORM.WHETHER HE WAS A KEEPER OR HE IS A CAPTAIN HE PLAYS HIS OWN GAME WITH NOT AFFECTED BY THIS.
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Dravid's style\nBeginning with the reputation of being a defensive batsman who should be confined to Test cricket, Rahul Dravid has defied early perceptions to become the mainstay of the Indian batting line-up in ODIs as well as in Tests. His nickname of 'The Wall' in Reebok advertisements was treated by ODI fans as a derisory comment about his inability to rotate strike as he tended to hold up one end playing his front foot defence, neither scoring runs nor getting out. The nickname has now become a tribute to his consistency. Dravid has scored 22 centuries in Test cricket at an average of 57.65, including 5 double centuries, whilst in one-dayers he has an average of 40.16 at a strike rate of 70. He is one of the few Indians who average more at away matches than at home, averaging about 10 more runs a match abroad than on Indian pitches. As of 28 October, 2005, Dravid's average in overseas Tests stood at 63.20 as against his overall Test average of 57.59, and his average for away ODI stands at 42.95 as against overall ODI average of 40.42. In matches India has won, Rahul Dravid averages 79.51 and 51.54 in Tests and ODI respectively.\n\nDravid's sole Test wicket was that of Ridley Jacobs in the fourth Test against the West Indies during the 2001-2002 series. While he has no pretensions to being a bowler, Dravid often kept wickets for India in ODIs, an 'experiment' that continued for several seasons. He has since delegated the wicket-keeping gloves, first to Parthiv Patel and more recently to Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Dravid is now purely a batsman, one whose Test average has soared to 67.56 in matches played since 1 January, 2000.\n\nDravid was involved in two of the largest parnerships in ODIs: a 318-run partnership with Sourav Ganguly, the first pair to combine for a 300-run partnership, and then a 331-run partnership with Sachin Tendulkar, which is the present world record. He also holds the record for the greatest number of innings since debut before being dismissed for a duck. His highest scores in ODI's and Tests are 153 and 270 respectively. Uniquely, each of his five double centuries in Tests was a higher score than his previous double century (200, 217, 222, 233, 270).\n\n \nRahul Dravid's career performance graph.Schooled at St. Joseph's Boys High School, Bangalore, and college in St. Joseph's College Of Commerce. He was coached by Keki Tarapore, Dravid has played county cricket for Kent and Scotland. He also led Karnataka to the Ranji Trophy, scoring a double century in the process in the final. He made his Test debut against England at Lords in the 2nd Test match of India's Test tour of England in 1996, and his ODI debut against Sri Lanka at Singapore in the Singer Cup tournament in the same year. He was named one of the Wisden cricketers of the year 2000.\n\nIn 2004, Dravid was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India. On 7 September, 2004, he was awarded the inaugural Player of the year award and the Test player of the year by the International Cricket Council, ICC (associated image below). Dravid's batting average of 95.46 in the past year has made him the only Indian to be in the Test team of the year. On 18th March, 2006, Dravid played his 100th Test against England in Mumbai.\n\nIn 2005, a biography of Rahul Dravid written by Devendra Prabhudesai was published, 'The Nice Guy Who Finished First'.\n\nIn the 2005 ICC Awards he was the only Indian to be named to the World one-day XI.\n\nDravid was nicknamed 'Jammy' by schoolmates because his father worked for Kissan, famous for its jams and preserves.\n\nIn 2006, it was announced that he would remain captain of the Indian team up to the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies.\n\n\nPersonal Records\n\nTests\nDravid has the 2nd highest Test batting average among those who have scored over 8,000 Test runs. (30 March 2006) \nLongest streak of consecutive Tests since debut (94) \nGreatest number of in
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Sachin has the edge over Gavaskar & Kapil Dev.I am not a Sachin fan but his statistics are super-human.He is one of a kind & we won,t see the likes of him in our lifetimes.He also holds a very narrow edge over the great Viv Richards.