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| Successful captain in the history of cricket |
Some people have become not only stars but also legends
while playing cricket. Incumbent India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been
named one of the most successful cricket captains of all time, along with
wicket-keeping and good batsmen. Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has
captained the team in more than 200 matches. Graeme Smith has led the South
African team as a successful cricketer. Now look at the most successful cricket
captains of all time.
Steve Waugh
Former Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh has been
called the ‘Ice Man’ for his extraordinary cricketing prowess. He is considered
as the best successful cricketer of all time.
Birth and identity
Born on June 2, 1965 in New South Wales, the former Australian international cricket star. Australia was one of the members of the team. Besides right-handed batting, he has also had success in medium-pace bowling.
He was once one of the highest run scorers of his time. Steve Waugh, nicknamed 'Tugga', captained the Australian team from 1999 to 2004. He is known as the best Test captain of all time in the history of Test cricket. Australia led the team in 57 Tests and won 41 of them.
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| Steve Waugh |
Player life
Steve Waugh made his Test debut against India in the 2nd
Test in Melbourne in the 1985-86 season. Besides 13 and 5 runs, he took 2
wickets for 36 runs in the first innings. Although not able to score
significant runs in the series, he was included in the New Zealand tour in the
same season. In the second Test at Lancaster Park in Christchurch, he scored 74
runs as well as 4/56, showing an impressive all-round performance. But his
batting average was only 17.40.
Success
As one of 11 players in the history of Test cricket, he has scored over ten thousand runs. He has consistently helped Australia win a record 16 Tests. He led the team that won the 1999 Cricket World Cup. In 2004, he was named Australian Cricketer of the Year. He was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in January 2010 at his home ground, Sydney Cricket Ground.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Incumbent India
captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been named one of the most successful cricket
captains of all time along with wicket-keeping and good batsmen.
Birth and identity
Born on 8 July 1981 in Ranchi, Jharkhand. Under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India won the 2007 ICC World T20, the 2007-08 CB Series, the 2008 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, a 2-0 series against Australia in 2010 and the 2011 Cricket World Cup. Under his captaincy, India rose to number one in the Test rankings.
His record in Test and ODI cricket is still the best among Indian captains. He won the ICC Champions Trophy in England in 2013, as well as being the first captain in the world to win all ICC tournaments. Under his leadership, India won the first ODI series in Sri Lanka and New Zealand, and India beat Australia in a Test twenty years later.
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| Mahendra Singh Dhoni |
As captain
Dhoni led India to the ICC World T20 in South Africa in September 2007. In the final and exciting match of the competition, the Indian team became the champion after defeating the Pakistan team with proper leadership of the team.
He then led the team against Australia in a seven-match ODI series in September 2007. Anil Kumble, who retired in the 3rd Test against Australia in the 4th and final Test at Nagpur in November 2008, captained the Indian team.
Under Dhoni's leadership, the Indian cricket team was ranked No. 1
in the ICC Test rankings in December 2009. Dhoni was able to level the Test series
with South Africa in February 2010 and as a result India was able to retain the
top spot in the ICC Test rankings.
On April 2, 2011, Dhoni scored an unbeaten 91 in the ICC
Cricket World Cup against Sri Lanka. Sachin Tendulkar praised Dhoni in this regard
and said that Dhoni is the best of all captains in his long life in cricket.
Tendulkar noted that Dhoni's calm and calm demeanor had a profound effect on
the minds of the team players and that he had successfully dealt with difficult
pressures which were truly incredible.
On the other hand, Sourav Ganguly in an interview to the media declared Dhoni as the best Indian captain of all time and said that he has set a rare record that deserves praise.
Success
On October 31, 2005, Dhoni scored an unbeaten 183 off 145
balls against Sri Lanka at the Sai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, the highest
individual score for a team batting in the second innings (Brian Lara's
previous record of 153). After Rohit Gurunath Sharma who hit 12 sixes.
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| Dhoni record |
He set a world record as a wicket-keeper after Adam Gilchrist's 172 runs. His 183 * is equivalent to Sourav Ganguly's 1999 World Cup run. Dhoni's run average is the highest among Indians playing 50 matches. Also, Dhoni's batting average is the highest among wicket-keepers in ODI cricket.
In the Afro-Asia Cup in June 2007, MS Dhoni and Mahela Jayawardene set a new world record for the Asia XI by scoring 218 runs for the 6th wicket against the Africa XI. Dhoni made a personal innings of 139, breaking Shaun Pollock's record as the No. 6 batsman.
Dhoni contributed 6 outs (5 catches and 1 stamping) in the match against England on September 2, 2007, making him the 1st Indian wicket-keeper and the joint world record holder with Adam Gilchrist. On 24 August 2008, former wicket-keeper Nayan Mongia set an Indian record by surpassing 154 outs in one-day international cricket.
After Adam Gilchrist, Andy Flower, Alec Stewart, Mark Boucher and Kumar Sangakkara, Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the 6th wicket-keeper in the world to score double in ODI cricket with 4,000 runs and 100 outs. He also set a world record by winning a double in just 114 matches.
Ricky Ponting
Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has captained the
team in more than 200 matches. He is the third most successful cricketer of all
time.
Birth and identity
Born on December 19, 1974 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. The former batsman, nicknamed Punter, captained the Australian national cricket team from 2004 to 2011 in Test cricket and from 2002 to 2011 in ODIs.
Ricky Ponting was recognized as the main batting pillar of the Australian cricket team from the 1990s to the early 2000s. He played mainly as a right-handed batsman and gained a lot of fame. In fielding, he would stand in the slip and catching position and bowl occasionally as the team needed.
According to cricket pundits, along with India's Sachin Tendulkar and West Indies' Brian Lara, he is also considered one of the best batsmen of the modern era. Ponting was the highest-ranked Test cricketer in the last 50 years in the Test cricket rankings released on December 1, 2006. He played in 4 Cricket World Cup finals
Under his leadership, Australia won the 2003 and 2007
Cricket World Cup trophies. He was also a member of the Australian team that
won the 1999 Cricket World Cup under Steve Waugh. In 2015, he made his debut as
the coach of Mumbai Indians
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| Ricky Ponting |
Player life
Ponting got involved in cricket at the instigation of his father Graeme and uncle Greg Campbell. At the age of 11, he played for Mobre U-12 team in the 1985-86 season. In January 1986, he took part in the five-day annual Northern Tasmania Junior Cricket Tournament.
After scoring four centuries in the week-long competition, Kukabura signed a formal contract with bat manufacturer Ponting. At that time Ponting was studying in 7th grade. After a month, he continued the same trend in the week-long competition for the under-16 team.
He scored a pair of centuries on the final day and drew everyone's attention with his outstanding cricket skills. Ted Richardson, former head of the Northern Tasmanian Schools Cricket Association, said of his success: "Ricky is definitely on par with David Boone as a player at this level."
Australian Rules football is one of the most important part of Ponting's playing career. He is a staunch supporter of the North Melbourne Kangaroos. He played junior football for North Launceston in the winter until he was 14 years old.
It was a potential sporting issue for him. But the dream
was shattered at the age of 13 when the right-handed humerus broke while
playing for North Launceston's under-17 team. Ponting's arm was severely
damaged. That's why he had to put a pin on his broken part. As a result, he was
bedridden for 14 weeks. Since then, he has never played competitive football.
After ten years of schooling in 1990, he worked as a groundsman at Scotch Oakburn College, a private school in Launceston. In 1991, Ponting was sent by the Northern Tasmanian Cricket Association to the Australian Institute of Sports Cricket Academy in Adelaide for part-time training.
The two-week training takes a full two-year period. Academy coach Rod Marsh said he had never seen a better batsman like 17-year-old Ricky Ponting.
In November 1992, at the age of 17 years and 337 days, Ponting made his first-class cricket debut for Tasmania at the Under-19 Festival in Perth and played five matches.
As a result, he became the youngest Tasmanian
cricketer to play in the Sheffield Shield. He scored a total of 350 runs in the
games and was selected as a member of the Australian Under-19 national
development team for the next tour of South Africa. The tour was the first
Australian cricket team's tour of South Africa since Bill Laurie's in 1970.
Ricky Ponting's best achievements at a glance
As an Australian, he has scored a maximum of 27,483
international runs in Tests, ODIs and T20s. He has averaged 13378 as an
Australian in Tests and 13,708 as an Australian in ODIs.
He has scored 41 international centuries, including 71 in
Tests and 30 in ODIs.
He owns 143 international fifties, including 62 in Tests
and 81 in ODIs.
He led the country to 48 wins in that Test, the most by
an Australian. There were 16 consecutive Test wins.
He has led the country in 230 ODIs and has won 165 of
them. No one from Australia or any other country has led the team in so many
matches.
Australia were unbeaten in 35 consecutive World Cup matches
in 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011. Apart from 1999, Ponting led the other three
World Cups and led Australia to two consecutive unbeaten titles.
Ponting seems to be the biggest witness of Australia's golden age. He has represented the country 375 times in colorful clothes and 168 times in white clothes. Both are top-notch as Australians, although the white robe is shared with him in this achievement by Ponting's perennial Steve Waugh. Undoubtedly, this also proves that one's own fitness b.
Clive Lloyd
Clive Lloyd, one of the most legendary players on the cricket field, has made history by playing as the captain of the West Indies team. He is one of the most successful captains of all time.
Clive Lloyd is a famous cricketer of West Indies. He was the captain of the West Indies team in the seventies and eighties. Under his leadership, the West Indies won the World Cup twice in a row in 1975 and 1979.
He currently serves as an ICC referee in
international matches. Also his cousin about Lance Gibbs, one of the most
successful spin bowlers in the history of West Indies cricket. He has also
played for the West Indies many times together.
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| Clive Lloyd |
West Indies cricket team, West Indies or West Indies multinational cricket team. Cricket teams from 15 English-speaking Caribbean countries, British colonies and non-British colonies have participated.
From the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, the team dominated Test cricket and one-day international cricket - both levels of cricket - more than any other team in the world. A bunch of the best cricketers played for the West Indies at the time. Sir Garfield Sobers, Lance Gibbs, Gordon Greenidge, George Hadley, Clive Lloyd, Malcolm Marshall, Andy Roberts, Alvin Kalicharan, Rohan Kanhai, Frank O'Reilly, Everton Wicks, Cartley Ambrose Cricket Hall of Fame.
