Gambhir Or Kohli

[CG]

Gambhir- Pros- 1.Senior Player 2.Established Odi Player 3.Has captained India in odis with success and also captained delhi 4.Big Match Player 5.Does well as a captain 6.Seems to finding some form in eng series Cons- 1.Struggling with form for last 2 years in Tests 2.May not have backing Of BCCI Kohli Pros- 1-Young ,Energetic May bring a freshness to the team 2-Best odi Batsman in the world 3-Has Bcci Support 4.Can be alongterm Replacement Cons- 1.Has less experience of captaincy In Fc level 2.Performance was affected when he captained Rcb 3.Still to establish himself as a good test batsman 4.If made captain ,Seniors may sulk. My choice would be gambhir for tests and kohli for t20s.

[Raghav_12]

Is Dhoni going anywhere?

[CG]

Is Dhoni going anywhere?

Yeah signs are there bcci sunny gavaskar said kohli should be captain.

[The Outsider]

There is nothing long term about captaincy in general and Indian captaincy in particular. The typical shelf life of most international captains is 5-6 years and shorter for Indian captains. There are exceptions like Smith, but it's foolhardy to pick a captain thinking you'll get 10 years of captaincy out of him when making the selection. Just in recent times Azhar, Ganguly, Tendulkar, Dravid, Dhoni were all done with captaincy long before they were done with players. Even if Kohli were to be made captain today it would be unrealistic to expect more than 5 productive years out of him, so this long term option should not be a consideration as long as there are 2-3 years left. Sehwag would be a good choice and Gambhir won't be bad either. Wouldn't go with Kohli for now.

[saneindian]

Gambhir or Sehwag as captain? Non performance is the reason why Dhoni is being sacked and he should be replaced by either of these two who have themselves done absolutely nothing and were close to getting dropped before this series? Also having either of them as captain would mean the ego clashes in the team would go on and continue to sink the team further. Better thing to do would be to give Kohli the captaincy with the board's full backing.

[Iconoclast]

Both options are bad. GG is selfish and VK is immature ... plus neither of them performed exceptionally well this past series.

[Sean Bradley]

Go the South African way, Its worth taking a risk with virat kohli than gambhir...

[shortbread]

Definitely not gambhir, the only reason people like him are still in the squad is because the selection panel has the brains and balls of a 2 year old school girl!!!

[AbhishekS]

Gambhir for tests, Virat for T20s Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

[superstar]

Gambir should be kicked out of the test team for the innings he played in Mumbai

[its me]

Gambhir does lift his game as a captain and he is a aggresive captain.Kohli needs to play more test cricket atleast one more year.

[Debutant]

Gambhir should not be in the team, forget about becoming the captain

[Needforspeed]

I would go with split captaincy. Dhoni to continue in ODIs and Kholi for Tests. As for T20s who gives a sh**. Even Vinay Koomar can be the captain.

[Zero_Unit]

I vote Kholi. Remember Ganguly had that cockyness (not saying Ghambir dosen't, but when he shows cockyness it looks like a freaking little girl crying over JUSTIN BIBER) and that natural charisma to be a born leader. Kholi kinda reminds me of him. He is aggressive and very cocky ... India needs that as a captain!

[Clarke]

Kohli for sure, he's shown quite some character on multiple occasions. Heck, some BC/MC should be better than the stupid excuses Dhobi comes up with.

[diga]

Kohli .. lets rebuild the team around him

[Sidhoni]

tina

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tina

what can you expect of CSK fan?:facepalm:

[saneindian]

tina

Put a dummy as captain and even then the team will not do any worse given the depths it has fallen to under Dhoni :-) All we need is a start. Dhoni should be dropped from the T20s and Kohli be allowed to lead.

[Clarke]

tina

How do you know that Kohli/Gambhir/someone else will do worse ?