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Dravid has best ODI success rate among Indian captains


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NEW DELHI: With the World Cup around the corner and the top eight teams gunning to lift the most coveted trophy in the West Indies, there is good news for Indian skipper Rahul Dravid. Statistics show that the 'Wall' is India's most successful One-day captain among all those who have captained India in at least 20 matches. Under Dravid, India have won 32 of the 58 matches that have produced results during his tenure. That's a success rate of 55%, just a little higher than the 54% success rate that Sourav Ganguly, Mohammad Azharuddin and Kapil Dev had. This may seem like a fine point, but the statistics actually understate how much more successful Dravid has been than his predecessors. That's because, of the 62 One-day matches in which Dravid has captained, only two have been played against a traditional minnow ? Zimbabwe in 2005 ? while the rest have all been against the top teams in world cricket. In contrast, Ganguly had 31 wins against the likes of Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Namibia and Netherlands boosting his success rate and Azhar had the benefit of 20 wins against the whipping boys of international cricket. Exclude matches against the minnows and Dravid's success rate drops to 54%, but Ganguly's goes down to 43% and Azhar's to 49%. Only Kapil Dev, with a 51% success rate against the better teams, comes close to matching Dravid's record. Kapil, in fact, has a better record leading away from home ? excluding minnows ? than even Dravid. On foreign soil, Kapil won 49% of the matches he led in, whereas Dravid has won 10 out of 23 completed matches for a 43% success rate. That put's him in third place behind Gavaskar, who had a 46% success rate with 11 wins in 24 matches. Ganguly's record abroad (23%) is the worst among the six captains who have led India at least in 20 matches each. Azhar has the best record at home (excluding minnows) with a 65% win rate, but Dravid is not far behind at 61%. On this list, Ganguly finishes in fifth spot, ahead of Gavaskar, who could captain India to only 14 wins in 35 completed matches. http://cricket.indiatimes.com/Dravid_has_best_ODI_success_rate_/articleshow/1653872.cms

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Re: Dravid has best ODI success rate among Indian captains Thats good... Dravid either wins few in a row or loses few in a row.. Lets hope he can win handful in a row including semis and finals of WC...and then lose all ODI for entire year...no one will care. :hic: :hic: :hic: :hic:

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Re: Dravid has best ODI success rate among Indian captains Say what you want...Still Ganguly is India's WINNINGEST kuptaan Here's the reason 1. Dravid never reached WC final (Never played one...duh) 2. Dravid never reached CT final 3. Dravid never won 8 matches that were played when temperatures were below 40 F 4. Dravid never won 6 matches when 4 left handers played for India, three spinners played for the opposition, one confused left-arm right-arm fast spinner served as 12th man 5. Dravid never won against minnows. Ganguly went to Lion's den (meaning Zim and Bangladesh) and conquered them 6. Dravid never reached so many finals like Ganguly did. Again most of them were tri-series and India reached final playing against the Lions (meaning Zim, Bangladesh, Nambia) as the 3rd team 7. Dravid cannot be a good captain bcos he never removed his shirt in balcony 8. Dravid cannot be a good captain because he is politically correct in his press statements 9. Dravid cannot be a good captain because I like Ganguly 10. Dravid cannot be a good captain because he 11. Finally, all the matches won by Dravid when opposition played SHYTE 12. Dravid won many of the matches because Ganguly inspired the team 13. Most of Dravid's win were bcos of Ganguly's LAW OF MOMENTUM PS - I like Ganguly and proud of his achievements when he captained India. I like Dravid too.

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Say what you want...Still Ganguly is India's WINNINGEST kuptaan Here's the reason 1. Dravid never reached WC final (Never played one...duh) 2. Dravid never reached CT final 3. Dravid never won 8 matches that were played when temperatures were below 40 F 4. Dravid never won 6 matches when 4 left handers played for India, three spinners played for the opposition, one confused left-arm right-arm fast spinner served as 12th man 5. Dravid never won against minnows. Ganguly went to Lion's den (meaning Zim and Bangladesh) and conquered them 6. Dravid never reached so many finals like Ganguly did. Again most of them were tri-series and India reached final playing against the Lions (meaning Zim, Bangladesh, Nambia) as the 3rd team 7. Dravid cannot be a good captain bcos he never removed his shirt in balcony 8. Dravid cannot be a good captain because he is politically correct in his press statements 9. Dravid cannot be a good captain because I like Ganguly 10. Dravid cannot be a good captain because he 11. Finally, all the matches won by Dravid when opposition played SHYTE 12. Dravid won many of the matches because Ganguly inspired the team 13. Most of Dravid's win were bcos of Ganguly's LAW OF MOMENTUM PS - I like Ganguly and proud of his achievements when he captained India. I like Dravid too.
..senstive question Did you type dravid all the time or copy/paste it :wtg:
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Nothing sensitive about that Rajeeve bhai....I'm a big copy/paste person (being a s/w techie!!!) but didn't do copy/paste this time though!!
..lol, that was the point. Its outta respect right..you autiomatically type it very good :wtg:
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Re: Dravid has best ODI success rate among Indian captains

Predator_05 Dravid haters can fill up the blanks depending on how much one's mind is messed up. He is timid, weak, middle class goody goody, not arrogant, not a born leader etc.
spineless serpent, got blood on his hands, wimpy, nerd, ...
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