Kapil Dev believes that the Board of Control for Cricket in India should keep faith in under-fire skipper, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, as he remains the best candidate to lead the side in any format of the game.
Following another early exit from the World T20, speculation has grown over Dhoni’s status as the leader across all formats. His own performances have also been up for debate as in the previous 6 T20Is Dhoni has managed just 87 runs with a best of 23.
However, he has been among the most successful captains of the country, guiding his teams to two World Cup triumphs, along with helping them reach the summit of Test cricket. Nonetheless, the team’s showings over the past 15 months have been considerably poor, where they had to face two successive Test whitewashes away, to England and Australia.
For Dhoni, it has been non-stop cricket where he has further performed duties for Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League, and is currently involved in the Champions League T20.
With a tough series against England and Australia coming up, many hold the view that having different captains for different formats may be the right way to move forward, something which has been done by their upcoming opponents in recent times.
Stuart Broad and George Bailey lead the England and Australian T20 teams respectively, leaving Alastair Cook and Michael Clarke to focus on the other two versions. For Kapil, however, that situation is not a viable one for the Men in Blue as he believes that MS Dhoni remains the best leader under all circumstances.
"You can't expect him to win all the time. He has given you World Cup, World T20, won Test matches, been number one in ICC rankings, so you can't expect him to win every time," Kapil said.
"If you have someone who is good enough to lead in all three formats, why do you need separate captains. But is there anyone who can do it? Do we have options for three formats?" he asked.
"There are certain things that Australia does and we tend to follow that but when we do certain things, we are criticized," he added.
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