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Sourav Ganguly vs MS Dhoni

Sourav Ganguly and MS Dhoni as a captain

MS Dhoni and S Ganguly both have been successful as captains, Sourav Ganguly has been first ever Indian captain who created confidence in the team to win overseas. It was under his captaincy we started wining matching outside India.

MS Dhoni too has found success in Australia under his outstanding captaincy skills.20 20 world cup win and beating Australia in Australia are his major achievements.

Sourav Ganguly as Player

S Ganguly was the man who gave the power to the team and by that power we all know that we won many series outside our country like reaching ICC mini world cup final, Natwest series, drawing Australia test series, Pakistan series after 40 years, runner up in the world cup 2003.
He is aggressive by nature and that made team more aggressive . He created a strong team India which had players like Yuvraj singh,Harbhajan singh,Zaheer khan,Mohd. Kaif,Virender Sehwag.

He gave Australia a tough time in there tour to Australia after 2003 world cup, he scored a fabulous century in the first test.

MS Dhoni as a player

MS Dhoni became captain in 2007 in 20-20 world cup team. He believes in playing "fearless cricket".He showed his excellence as a player and as a captain in T 20 format by winning it for India. They really played well and some of new finds for  India were RP Singh, Joginder Sharma and Rohit Sharma. Yuvraj Singh stunned us all by hitting 6 huge sixes of Stuart broad.
M.S.Dhoni is a captain who trust his players excellence and is experimental. He is not afraid of taking tough decisions. In T-20 format he made decisions like giving Joginder Sharma last over against Aussies and Pakistan team, sending Yousuf Pathan at opening position in World Cup final of 20 20 etc. In short he makes right decisions at right time. That’s why India won the t20 world cup.