Three Captains, Three ODI innings of 183, Your Favourite?

[jalebi_bhai]

Ganguly 1999:

 

 

Dhoni 2005:

 

 

Kohli 2012:

 

 

Neither of them were captains when they played their innings though. 

 

Very hard for me to pick my favourite. All three were top quality innings but I've gone with Dhoni 2005. Entertainment factor plus the fact that we won that series. 

[kira]

Kohli>=Ganguly>>>Dhoni

[jalebi_bhai]

5 minutes ago, kira said:

Kohli>=Ganguly>>>Dhoni

Come on now. Can't compare like that. 

[BeautifulGame]

Ganguly's because it came in a world cup match under pressure.It was a do or die game for us.

 

Lose that match we would have been knocked out of world cup

[Sidhoni]

Didn't see Ganguly's innings live.

 

Dhoni's 183* goes down as one of the world's best innings. The sheer percentage of runs he scored (183 out of 300) was amazing. Considering the difference in eras, that innings is equivalent to scoring 210-220 while chasing 350 in today's cricket.

[Ankit_sharma03]

MSD one was the best for me overall, ill pick that innings over any odi innings by an indian batsman

Alone scored above 50

in the 1st year of cricket 

Against a complete attack 

Sl had good fielding side to......

HAd a cramp while he was batting at 70 yet finished the game

 

[zen]

I recall watching the first two. Kohli's, may have followed it on cricinfo. Below is my take on the innings:

 

• Ganguly and Dravid got a great partnership going. Draid took the charge in the partnership, allowing Ganguly to play himself in. Dravid got out at 145. Ganguly then took over to get to 183 
• Dhoni's was a demolition job that caught SL off guard 
• Kohli's 183 helped Ind chase a huge total 

 

All of them are fabulous performances. But if I have to pick one, it would be the chasing effort by Kohli vs arch rivals Pak 

 

 

[BCCI]

Really tough to choose between Kohli's and Dhoni's innings.

[kira]

30 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

MSD one was the best for me overall, ill pick that innings over any odi innings by an indian batsman

Alone scored above 50

in the 1st year of cricket 

Against a complete attack 

Sl had good fielding side to......

HAd a cramp while he was batting at 70 yet finished the game

 

Are you fking kidding? Over any odi innings by an Indian batsman? Were you not born when sachin played the sharjah gold? Ah kids these days 

[zen]

2 minutes ago, kira said:

Are you fking kidding? Over any odi innings by an Indian batsman? Were you not born when sachin played the sharjah gold? Ah kids these days 

Well, there is Kapil's 175 as well

 

[kira]

54 minutes ago, jalebi_bhai said:

Come on now. Can't compare like that. 

I picked kohli because it came against pakistan, they way he destroyed the Pakistani attack was an absolute joy to watch. Ganguly played a better knock as it came in the world cup in england when the pressure was on but I enjoyed kohli's knock way more that's why kohli>=Ganguly for me. Dhoni's knock was cool but it came in random bilateral against lanka (the most boring series on earth) on an Indian ground, it was a good knock but nothing compared the other 2.

[kira]

2 minutes ago, zen said:

Well, there is Kapil's 175 as well

 

There are too many knocks better than dhoni's innings, sharjah was just one example, more than half of sachin's centuries are better than that dhoni knock.

[jalebi_bhai]

1 minute ago, zen said:

Well, there is Kapil's 175 as well

 

That innings is most probably the most important in Indian ODI history.

[jalebi_bhai]

1 minute ago, kira said:

I picked kohli because it came against pakistan, they way he destroyed the Pakistani attack was an absolute joy to watch. Ganguly played a better knock as it came in the world cup in england when the pressure was on but I enjoyed kohli's knock way more that's why kohli>=Ganguly for me. Dhoni's knock was cool but it came in random bilateral against lanka (the most boring series on earth) on an Indian ground, it was a good knock but nothing compared the other 2.

I can buy this explanation.

 

It's just all the = <> stuff. 

[Ankit_sharma03]

15 minutes ago, kira said:

Are you fking kidding? Over any odi innings by an Indian batsman? Were you not born when sachin played the sharjah gold? Ah kids these days 

Well i have my reason, i think SL bowling attack was better and had more variety than that of aussie in sharjah condition. I clearly said ill choose it over any innings, my choice. Dhoni finished the game sachin didnt on both occasion so yea i have my reasons

 

13 minutes ago, zen said:

Well, there is Kapil's 175 as well

 

May be the greatest but i havent seen it 

[velu]

dhoni = kohli > dada

[BCCI]

Offtopic,but what a freak co-incidence it is.

[DDfan2017]

The comparison becomes biased if many of the guys hv not watched the Dada's innings in 1999 WC.. I vote for Dada's 183 as it came in England, not on an Asian batting paradise. I agree the field was small, still given the pitch condition, the big stage of a World Cup game, against quality bowlers like Chaminda Vaas and Muralitharan, I will rate that innings higher than the other two..

[jalebi_bhai]

2 minutes ago, BCCI said:

Offtopic,but what a freak co-incidence it is.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/current/match/65090.html

 

Look at how much we made when we won our first WC.

[jalebi_bhai]

4 minutes ago, DDfan2017 said:

The comparison becomes biased if many of the guys hv not watched the Dada's innings in 1999 WC.. I vote for Dada's 183 as it came in England, not on an Asian batting paradise. I agree the field was small, still given the pitch condition, the big stage of a World Cup game, against quality bowlers like Chaminda Vaas and Muralitharan, I will rate that innings higher than the other two..

Lanka were also defending champs.