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My Thoughts On Overseas Captaincy Record of Ganguly, Dravid, Sachin & Dhoni


Recently i have been browsing through some interesting statistics about captaincy record of Indian captains when palying outside India and I digged out some interesting numbers.

Following is the comparison between captaincy records of Ganguly, Dravid, Sachin and Dhoni. I am not considering old stalwards like Pataudi, Gavaskar and kapil because that was totally a different era for India cricket and it would not be fair to compare with modern era.

Matches played outside India are only considered


S.Ganguly-

Matches- 25  Won- 11  Lost- 10
(excluding matches against Bangladesh & zimbabwe  Won- 06  Lost- 09)

Achievements-

Won a test match (in 2003/04) in Australia first time after 1986/87.
Won a test series(in Pak 2004) outside India first time after 1992/93 (vs Srilanka)
Won a test match(in 2002) in England first time since 1985/86.


R. Dravid-

Matches- 17  Won- 05  Lost- 04
(excluding matches against Bangladesh & zimbabwe  Won- 04  Lost- 04)

Achievements-

Won a test series(in Eng 2007) in England first time after 1986/87
Won a test series(in W.I. 2006) in West Indies first time after 1971/72
Won a test match in South Africa (2006/07) first time ever.(India had not won a single test there untill then.)
Won a test match in Pakistan (2004) first time ever.(India had not won a single test in 50 years there untill then.)


S. Tendulkar-

Matches- 13  Won- 00  Lost- 06
(excluding matches against Bangladesh & zimbabwe  Won- 00  Lost- 06)

Achievements-

None (although India came close to win a test match in south africa and West Indies, but due to the lack of killer instinct they fell short of it.)


MS. Dhoni- 

Matches- 19  Won- 05  Lost- 09
(excluding matches against Bangladesh & zimbabwe  Won- 04  Lost- 09)


Achievements-

Won a test series(in New Zealand 2008/09) in New Zealand.

Draw the test series in South Africa by 1-1 in 2010/11.(before that India had lost all series in Africa.)



Conclusion- Though Dhoni is a good captain, he is certainly not a greatest captain India has ever got as media was claiming few months back. (as far as test cricket is concerned).

In the same manner, He is not a worst captain either as media is claiming now a days.

Another thing I would like to point out that It is clear by seeing above stats that Rahul Dravid is far better captain than majority of peoples/media's general perception.

However, One of the best captain is undoubtedly Sourav Ganguly.

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