Cricket Acumen Challenge: Name better captains than Rohit in World cricket

[maniac]

I will wait 

 

 

 

 

Possible Contenders

MSD- comes across as selfish and aloof

Rohit- cares for youngsters, loving and like a big brother/ friend 

 

Imran Khan- was a politician and used players as a means to an end. Also shady off-field activities

Rohit Sharma- non-political guy. Very clean off-field image and is useful for his team mates rather than using them.

 

Pataudi- all hype. What did Pataudi acheieve exactly?

Rohit- self explanatory

 

Ganguly- Attitude dikhaon raat bhar, trophies jeetu Jht bhar

Rohit- chronic winner 

 

Clive Lloyd/ Ponting - cruise control with great team.

Rohit- made men out of kids. Made Dube, Varun types into world beaters.

 

any disagreement? Don’t think so.

[Austin 3:!6]

Where is Pandya under possible contender under whom Rohit will play in IPL?

 

[maniac]

16 minutes ago, Austin 3:!6 said:

Where is Pandya under possible contender under whom Rohit will play in IPL?

 

 

Rohit will not play under Pandya’s captaincy, Rohit will guide Pandya on how to lead the team and him :)

[Nikhil_cric]

Cummins. 

[Lord]

Ganguly and Dhoni shouldn't be considered. Only 1 bachhe ke baap

 

 

[cricketfan28]

None.

[Ultimate_Game]

Rohit should've been given the captaincy after Dhoni, especially in shorter formats. We wasted half a decade on Kohli knowing his record with RCB. Rohit ha dthat midas touch which we saw in IPL and finally it's translating over to intl cricket.

 

Also like Pandya as captain and want him to be the captain in T20Is over SKY.

Edited March 16 by Ultimate_Game

[BacktoCricaddict]

Rajat Patidar

 

He has not captained a single match but already has the same number of IPL titles as the King. 

[R!TTER]

Me, after the game's over 

[Sean Bradley]

Rohit got outsmarted by Cummins not once but multiple times, also by Latham at home. Rohit is not Dronacharya reincarnated. 

[mikeypbadana86]

On 3/16/2025 at 4:56 AM, maniac said:

I will wait 

 

 

 

 

Possible Contenders

MSD- comes across as selfish and aloof

Rohit- cares for youngsters, loving and like a big brother/ friend 

 

Imran Khan- was a politician and used players as a means to an end. Also shady off-field activities

Rohit Sharma- non-political guy. Very clean off-field image and is useful for his team mates rather than using them.

 

Pataudi- all hype. What did Pataudi acheieve exactly?

Rohit- self explanatory

 

Ganguly- Attitude dikhaon raat bhar, trophies jeetu Jht bhar

Rohit- chronic winner 

 

Clive Lloyd/ Ponting - cruise control with great team.

Rohit- made men out of kids. Made Dube, Varun types into world beaters.

 

any disagreement? Don’t think so.

 

I think, arjuna rangatunga is definitely better. He instilled the belief, created the brand of cricket Srilanka did play in 1996. He is bit rohit (tad less mingles with team)  + dhoni(equally authoritarian/imposing).Considering Srilanka was present day bangaldesh like in 1996 and to get the best out of the team and play a new brand of cricket and winning worldcup is a great achivement by rana tunga. 

 

Even Kapil dev > rohit considering he first one the world cup for India in 1983 and similar to arjuna, he made a minnow team like India win a world cup with his sheer belief and not to forget the famous 175 not out againts ZIM. Had it not been for his knock, india would have crashed out of world cup. 

 

Ganguly- Attitude dikhaon raat bhar, trophies jeetu Jht bhar

 

I disagree. 90's indian team was crap. Ganguly made them compete in overseas, got parity with PAK team which was otherwise thrashing India.

Created core group of  younger players like yuvraj,bhajji,zaheer,sehwag and ashish nehra who went on to play 2011 world cup. 

India bundled out Srilanka for 200 in 2002 champions trophy final twice in two consecuive days which was rained off. Indias trophy ended as joint winners. Neverthless one ICC trophy here

2003 ODI world cup final. Considering aussies were unbeaten in 1999, 2003 and 2007 world cup's Nothing much could be done here. Still a great achivement considering India were finalists after 20 years.

2004-05 winnings against Pak in ODI/test series after 50 years(first indian team to beat pakistan in PAK), natwest final win, 1-1 in australia, winning in england were some of the great things happened. 

 

Rohit > Ganguly as a captain, i meant to say Ganguly has his own legacy. 

 

Overall Rohit is better than Dhoni who has similar record in ICC tournaments, tad better considering he faced SL in final's and no pitch doctoring was done with due helping india too. 2023 ODI world cup would have been won had dravid been tactially good and not messed up pitch condition. Worst that that, politics were in play to schedule final in Ahmedabad.

[Zero_Unit]

Apart from Dhoni or Ganguly Some international names come to mind

England - Morgan: from my POV, ENG turned into a beast of a team after morgan took over and obviously came out with a trophy.

Australia - We can name greats like Pointing, Waugh, etc but I think Cummins is on a league of his own. He took a relatively weak AUS team and made the whole god damn world fear them like it was the OLD Aus team. 

Sri Lanka - Ranatunga - The way he stood by his players and espacially that Murali fiasco, he stood up for him like a leader should. 

Bangladesh- Mashrafee - This guy took a looser of a team and made real stride with that team. Players looked up to him and under him, BD became some sort of a threat - but back to being regular BD

Edited March 18 by Zero_Unit

[New guy]

On 3/17/2025 at 8:09 AM, Sean Bradley said:

Rohit got outsmarted by Cummins not once but multiple times, also by Latham at home. Rohit is not Dronacharya reincarnated. 

Doctored pitches where toss matters so much shouldn't count against a captain.

[sage]

Difficult to argue with OP. Solid case made

[vvvslaxman]

Suryakumar yadav  lol That guy won a match by bowling himself, Rinku singh.  I cannot think of Rohit sharma winning a match with some out of the box thinking. Almost everything is generic. When things go wrong he let things drift. Southee/Ravindra partnership, Lyon/Boland partnership,  Head/Labu parntership in final. India is a bloody good team. He is better than Kohli in LOI. But he never cared about depth. 

 

[Vilander]

All this due to CT win lol ? 

[bowl_out]

On 3/16/2025 at 5:39 AM, Nikhil_cric said:

Cummins. 

 

His innings against Afg itself is sufficient to prove his cricketing acumen. His 12(68) was just as important as Maxwell's innings

[bowl_out]

On 3/17/2025 at 3:31 PM, mikeypbadana86 said:

 

I think, arjuna rangatunga is definitely better. He instilled the belief, created the brand of cricket Srilanka did play in 1996. He is bit rohit (tad less mingles with team)  + dhoni(equally authoritarian/imposing).Considering Srilanka was present day bangaldesh like in 1996 and to get the best out of the team and play a new brand of cricket and winning worldcup is a great achivement by rana tunga. 

 

 

SL brand a brand of cricket in 1996 that was never seen before. Great captaincy by Ranatunga

[bowl_out]

On 3/16/2025 at 7:54 AM, Ultimate_Game said:

Rohit should've been given the captaincy after Dhoni, especially in shorter formats. We wasted half a decade on Kohli knowing his record with RCB. Rohit ha dthat midas touch which we saw in IPL and finally it's translating over to intl cricket.

 

Also like Pandya as captain and want him to be the captain in T20Is over SKY.

Should have gone split captaincy much earlier. Rohit for LOI and Kohli for Tests

[neel roy]

20 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

Suryakumar yadav  lol That guy won a match by bowling himself, Rinku singh.  I cannot think of Rohit sharma winning a match with some out of the box thinking. Almost everything is generic. When things go wrong he let things drift. Southee/Ravindra partnership, Lyon/Boland partnership,  Head/Labu parntership in final. India is a bloody good team. He is better than Kohli in LOI. But he never cared about depth. 

 

The face of Sri Lankan captain Charith Asalanka after that match still haunts me.. he looked like he had eaten two kilos of pumpkin in halloween or actually seen a ghost..