Its very rare to see Dhoni getting poker faced or abusing any of his fellow players and loosing his cool.In the last 2 years in which he has been captain,he has encouraged players like Gambhir ,Yuvraj and Ishant to name a few to reach personal career highs without interfering too much whilethey are in the field.We rarely see dhoni advising his bowlers be it the first ball of the match or the last ball of the match.Its quite amazing from the days of ganguly and sachin when the captain used to stand at midon and be behibd the bowlers.Comparing to the previous captains of india from the gavaskar era ,i think azhar and ganguly were the most sucessful captains,but azhars victory were mostly in homecondtions with laid out dust bowls to help kumble and co.Azhar was laid back and rarely enforced his decisions to the bowlers except in some instances.Sachin and kapil did rare justice to their captaincy compared to their individual performances.Common perseption was that they expected the other 10 players in the field to perform just like them.Although kapil was the captain of our worldcup winning team in 1983,there has been many instances where he had absolutely no clue,first instance comes to my mind in the 1987 series against pakistan the 2nd one day when salim malik was going bongers against the indian bowling and repeatedly pepperd the square leg and point boundaries and pakistan won from a situation needing around 80 in 8overs.The second instance was when Graham gooch swept his way to a hunderd in the worldcup semi's in 1987.
Gavaskar was pretty mucha a defensive captain and very vocal.Some of the incidents that he was part of like the walkout with chauhan in the 1980 Aussie series would have been a life ban if it had occured in the modern time.Ganguly is the only one who comes close to Dhoni in terms of vocitories in the one day ,but major titles have eluded him.Coming back to body language and coolness dhoni is way ahead of his predecessors.
More to come....Watch this space !!!
