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Do you agree with Ganguly and Brett Lee that Gambhir should be the next test captain for India?

In an interview taken by Live India (a Hindi News Channel), several domestic and international cricketers ( those who played for the KKR this season) including Brett Lee have said that Gambhir is the right choice for the Indian test captain. OK. I can understand that because he has led their team to a historic win this IPL and its no surprise that they have lined up in his favor. But Saurav Ganguly too said that Gambhir should be given the first priority (even above Dhoni) for the captaincy role. Do you agree with him? Do you agree that just because of two series losses (away series), Dhoni has become zero from hero? Has his captaincy skills vanished? Remember Ganguly was the one who was praising Dhoni's captaincy skills when Team India was winning regularly.

Your reactions please.

Update:

One T20 tournament win and a strong contender of the TEST captaincy? Hmmm. (Scratches head)

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  • 9 years ago
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    Gambhir is certainly an aggressive captain. He led his team very well throughout the whole tournament. Last year KKR reached in to semifinals and this year they sealed the trophy. But that is another question that can he successful as captain in Tests? I am not in the favor of making Gambhir captain. Gambhir and Dhoni are of same age and there can be clash of egos if we give assign captaincy task to Gambhir. We should go with a young age captain (certainly my finger is towards Kohli). MSD's team also reached in Finals. That was just Bisla's innings which created the difference. MSD has won two IPLs in a row, so what ? Ganguly and Brett Lee's opinions doesn't hold much value. Ganguly is from Kolkata and Brett Lee is a player of Kolkata Knight Riders.

    A T20 tournament winning captain can be assigned as a captain in Test format. We did that when MSD won the T20 cup for India. Gambhir has won a oneday series for India in past. But still I am not in the favor of making Gambhir Test team captain.

  • 9 years ago

    Thinking faculty becomes blunt when emotion overtakes. These are opinions voiced on the spur of the moment and therefore emotive. Moreover, most had answered in that fashion as the TV channel wanted to air only such an opinion. The leadership issue in Indian cricket is a well settled issue. Dhoni is doing a fine job and successor is being groomed well in Virat Kohli. Leading a pack in T20 is different from leading a test team and Gambhir has his limitations.

  • 9 years ago

    Yes of course. Gambhir has not only won the IPL but has brilliantly led India in an ODI series in Dhoni's absence.

  • 9 years ago

    No I don't. I think Kohli will be the next captain of India. He is the one most likely to play "a captains knock" when the team needs it.

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  • 9 years ago

    No. I think he take tension unlike dhoni

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    After one IPL how u want to replace 2 time winner and worldcup winner ?....

    Ganguly had some different opinion two months ago..... http://m.indianexpress.com/news/%22bhaji-has-abili...

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    yes. But, before that India need to find a potential wicket keeper who can bat as a test batsman. What I see is that Dhoni has no issue in his captaincy, its only in his batting in tests and if we want to see india at top, we need to find a wicket keeper batsman who is not less in potential than dhoni as a wicket keeper and batsman has.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Absolutely not. Gambhir KKR useless captain ever. His decision is not work to make his matches. actually lots of good player in KKR that why KKR win. Gambhir have nothing to do i thing. also his personal performance is Zero in ipl.

  • I don't think so. Dhoni should stay as the captain in test matches because Gambhir just leads kkr and wins IPL but test match is totally different from 20-20.

  • 9 years ago

    agree

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