'He built a team from scratch': Parthiv on why Ganguly has an edge over Dhoni in captaincy

Parthiv Patel has picked Sourav Ganguly over Mahendra Singh Dhoni as a better captain to have led Team India at highest level. Ganguly had taken over reins when Indian Cricket was in turmoil at beginning of new millennium and MS Dhoni took it to greater heights a few years later as Team India won all major titles under his captaincy. 

Parthiv picks Ganguly over Dhoni

“ competition is valid between two captains. One captain has a lot of trophies while or captain has built team. When Sourav Ganguly became captain after 2000, Indian cricket was going through a difficult time,” said Parthiv while interacting on Star Sports show 'Cricket Connected'.

“From re he built a team that won abroad, t that we are t winning earlier, but we won big Test matches abroad like Headingly, in Australia and n went to Pakistan and won Test series. If you talk about 2003 World Cup in South Africa, one was thinking that Indian team will reach final,” veteran stumper added.

“If you talk about Dhoni, he has a lot of trophies. He is only captain who has won so many trophies. In my opinion, if I have to cast my vote it would be for Dada because he built a team from scratch,” Gujarat cricketer furr added.

successful captaincy careers of Dada & MSD

southpaw was handed over captaincy in 2000 when Indian Cricket was in turmoil after that infamous match-fixing scandal broke out that included star cricketers Ajay Jadeja and former skipper Mohammad Azharuddin. Under Dada's captaincy, India had reached finals of ICC Kckout Trophy 2000, won Natwest tri-series in England by beating hosts in final that was led by Nasser Hussain, joint-winners of ICC Champions Trophy 2002 along with Sri Lanka, runners-up in 2003 World Cup, drawing Test series in Australia in 2003/04 and registering a historic ODI as well as Test series win against arch-rivals Pakistan in Pakistan, etc.

Sourav's captaincy ended in 2005 after his fallout with former Australian cricketer/captain-turned coach Greg Chappell.

Mahi on or hand is arguably best captain in history of both Indian and world cricket. He is only captain to win all ICC events (World T20 2007, ICC Test mace in 2009, 2011 World Cup, and 2013 Champions Trophy). He has also led Men In Blue to two Asia Cup triumphs in 2010 and 2016 (T20I format) respectively.

MS had relinquished his Test captaincy in December 2014 after end of Boxing Day Test match against Australia at iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground. He had called it a day on his limited-overs captaincy in January 2017 and passed on torch to his n-deputy and good friend Virat Kohli. 

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