Rohit Sharma is the Best Captain India will never have.

[King Tendulkar]

2 minutes ago, velu said:

 

you are one of the ICFs top arm chair experts KT bhai  

But an expert who gets it right  please don’t bump so many stupid threads I have started now loool

[velu]

3 minutes ago, King Tendulkar said:

But an expert who gets it right  please don’t bump so many stupid threads I have started now loool

 

you have threads for all possible scenarios  

[The Dark Horse]

Pleasantly surprised with Rohit's captaincy. 

1. He's a thinking captain.

2. More importantly, he is not afraid to admit mistakes (possible ones). Eg. His SR last match within 10 overs, promoting Shankar yesterday (He was saying it could have gone either way).

3. Gives due credit to all players. Yet to be seen how he reacts when the team loses.

 

Not a lot of captains admit point 2. Signs of a good leader.

[Lannister]

I feel he's a natural leader. Why not make him a captain in a format that he's good at. Kohli's captaincy comes with too much baggage. 

[vvvslaxman]

He is more flexible. That is what I have observed. He doesn't go in with rigid thinking. Adapts better to situations. 

[Lala]

Dhoni>Rohit>Virat

 

Reason for rating Dhoni greater than others is..................................................haha you anyway know that 

[vvvslaxman]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/22828963/situation-comes-karthik-ready-rohit-sharma

But don't like this lame reason for keeping Karthik down. Comments section is just slamming Rohit for his reasons. 

[Rasgulla]

Almost screwed us with Shankars promotion 

[zen]

Excellent (lucky) captain .... manages to win tournaments

Edited March 19, 2018 by zen

[RAZPOR]

I rate him higher than kohli especially as an loi captain.Well kohli isnt exactly the best metric though.

[Zero_Unit]

Virat already said it himself, he needs to be careful about how he goes on about cricket. Might aswell hand the T20 captaincy to Sharma.

[Clarke]

Lucky at best. Gets a star spangled side to lead in IPL and almost messed up the final against BD. For instance, when trundlers are getting hammered and spinners ruling, is it too hard to try Raina ? This is besides the Shankar goofup.

 

Did I mention his (lack of) consistency with the bat ?

Edited March 20, 2018 by Clarke

[sarcastic]

8 hours ago, Clarke said:

Lucky at best. Gets a star spangled side to lead in IPL and almost messed up the final against BD. For instance, when trundlers are getting hammered and spinners ruling, is it too hard to try Raina ? This is besides the Shankar goofup.

 

Did I mention his (lack of) consistency with the bat ?

That point (bolded above) is not part of the discussion here. 

 

Yes, MI is a good side but it has been a good side since 2008 when SRT was the captain. It went to playoffs only twice in the first five years and lost the only final in 2010. The same MI team has won 3 out of 5 IPLs that he was captaining. 

 

Sunday was a mistake in the late sending of KDK but no body would have expected Shankar to play that bad..> ( Not hitting and getting out is acceptable but eating balls in 18th over of a chase.... is yaaack). 

Coming to your point, may be Raina could have been tried but you never know with BD batters. They can very easily play ordinary spinners such as Raina. I agree an over could have been given to him though. 

[TNAmarkFromIndia]

Loses consecutive matches to Pakistan and Sri Lanka in Asia Cup T20.

[Frustrated]

This Thread aged like Vada Pav. 

[Chakdephatte]

His on field captaincy was never impressive despite his record. Comparison with Dhoni is laughable.

[cricketfan28]

this os not mumbai indian and this is not ipl. dhoni and kohli are superior.

[Sean Bradley]

Nothing wrong with his captaincy there, lost 2 close games which could have gone either way, We failed to capitalise on the Batting momentum, what could have been a 200 plus and 190 plus score, we threw away wickets in the end and scored less than what we could have. Rohit is still a  better white ball captain than Kohli.

[Lord]

15 minutes ago, Chakdephatte said:

His on field captaincy was never impressive despite his record. Comparison with Dhoni is laughable.

 

Tactically hes okay but body language is very poor. Other day he shouted at Arshdeep after drop. Even Kohli would have controlled himself

[maniac]

How many captains in world cricket can make a contest out of 4.5 bowlers including trundlers and mental midgets?