This is one more post from me on Indian Cricket :-) A topic I like so much, a game that I watch a lot, a game I have almost never played, a game I love talking about & do talk about to a lots of friends and strangers. I watch it on TV when at home and in any shop on the street that has tuned into this when I am out.

This is a short blog on the captaincy issue & the effects of that on the forthcoming australian tour. In all likelyhood we will be heading into the australian tour with a captain as Kumble or Dhoni & what about 5 or 6 former captains and vice captains in 10dulkar, ganguly, Dravid, Shewag, Yuvraj. I am not sure if this is good for our cricket. This is a state that existed when Azar took over as captain. We then had Srikanth, Shastri, Vengsarkar (I hope I am correct), Kapil Dev etc. All the four mentioned were out of the team a couple of years after that, maybe their exit was a case of a natural progression, but I still feel we should not be in a state where we are likely to have multiple power centers.

I feel that the best person to captain us on the Australian tour would be Dravid or Ganguly, in that order. I put Dravid first because he is one player who is certain to play in all the test matches, we cannot say the same about Ganguly. The other two names could have been Tendulkar or VVS. VVS was probably not considered for captaincy & moreover the selectors love to drop him (and are likely to do so for the test matches). Dravid & Tendulkar have refused, Ganguly not seriously considered, so the mantle has gone to Kumble (at least for the pak tour).

Inspite of the fact that Kumble was a very successful player in Australia the last time, I am not sure of him playing all the tests. The same is the case with Dhoni, we might be better off having Kartick as the keeper and Shewag opening. I say Shewag openning simply because we need an aggressive chap in that position to counter the aussies.

We are in this captaincy mess simply because the selectors and probably the board did not repect Dravid enough. The ideal situation for us was to have had him continue. Thanks to Vengsarkar and co, we have a problem we did not need. Are we headed for a whitewash ???