Could Dhoni be the best captain in world cricket?

It’s a scary question, not because Dhoni can't captain, he can, but can anyone else.

Australia has Ponting, who may not be in the job much longer, especially now 2 mad quick bowlers on are on the case.

Bangladesh has Crashraful, who while being the coolest batsman to watch go out, can’t really find a way to teach the kittens anything, especially since he is still a kitten himself.

England have KP, who talks the talk and fires up his team mates, but so far seems to not really understand fielding positions or games for cash.

New Zealand plumped for Daniel Vettori, he has glasses, so people assume he is intelligent, I haven’t seen many occurrences of this just yet.

Pakistan doesn’t have a team anymore, and when they did, they had a work experience kid looking after the boys.

Sri Lanka has Mahela, and lots of people rate him as a captain, I think he captains by numbers, and he never goes outside the lines.

South Africa chose Graeme Smith years ago, and just don’t have the balls to get rid of him, he is improving as a captain, by the time he is 43, he will be a great one.

West Indies picked Gayle, who doesn’t really want the job, but actually does a pretty good job from time to time in spite of it.

Not a golden era for Captains.

More a dark brown era.

Dhoni may not have been tested much so far, the Australian team certainly didn’t provide much in his two tests, but he has done well with limited opportunities.

He won the 2020 smells like world cup thingy.

He beat Australia and Sri Lanka during the Adam Gilchrist goodbye tour.

He almost one the IPL, if it wasn’t for the damn Warne.

And he was 2 zip in this series, while Kumble was zip zip.

It’s not so much the numbers though, it’s the way he reads the game, the way he takes chances, and the way he builds up his team mates.

The worst captaining I have seen him do was on the 5th day, but that is the only time i have seen him be overly defensive, and lose the plot for a little while.

We all saw the difference when Kumble left the field in the first test, it was if Dhoni went around taking out butt plugs from every player, or putting them in i suppose.

The waddling model may turn out to be another dud, but right at the moment he is the closest thing world cricket has to real captain type captain, well outside the IPL anyway.

Ofcourse he would be a better captain if he regained his old hair cut.www.cricketwithballs.com... We constantly get sodomized down the legside