{"id":1087,"date":"2020-07-31T14:56:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T09:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=28184"},"modified":"2020-07-31T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T09:26:11","slug":"irfan-pathan-thinks-gautam-gambhir-should-have-led-india-more-than-he-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/irfan-pathan-thinks-gautam-gambhir-should-have-led-india-more-than-he-did\/","title":{"rendered":"Irfan Pathan thinks Gautam Gambhir should have led India more than he did"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"breadcru eventtracker\" data-event-sub-cat=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<div class=\"clear\"><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Former India <\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">allrounder Irfan Pathan<\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial\"> reckons Gautam Gambhir\u2019s<\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial\"> skills as a captain were underutilised and he should have gotten more chances to lead at the international stage. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Between 2010 and 2011, Gambhir led India in six ODIs. all of which they went on to win. <\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">However during that time, MS Dhoni was the undisputed leader across all formats. <\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Pathan, though reckons, Gambhir would have been a good leader.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>\u201cI have huge respect for Sourav Ganguly, I have great respect for the captaincy of Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble and I think Gautam Gambhir should have led the Indian team a lot more as well than he did,\u201d Pathan told\u00a0<em>cricket.com<\/em>. \u201cHe could have been a really good leader. I really admire Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, but that doesn\u2019t mean, I don\u2019t admire the quality of Mahendra Singh Dhoni.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gambhir proved his credentials as a leader taking Kolkata Knight Riders to two IPL titles, ending their years of underachievement despite having several superstars among their ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Pathan rejected the notion that he\u2019s not a fan of Dhoni\u2019s captaincy since he doesn\u2019t talk about it much. \u201cPeople don\u2019t talk about Rahul Dravid as much. So, people who don\u2019t talk about Rahul Dravid as much, do they dislike him? No. Under his captaincy, India won 16 consecutive ODIs while chasing. Sometimes it gets under the wrap,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a winning captain, as a result-oriented captain and the guy who got the result, who had an excellent team, it was Mahendra Singh Dhoni,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>During his international career, Pathan played under several captains but he rates Sourav Ganguly above everyone else since he gave chances to several youngsters and made fans fall in love with the Indian team again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe (Ganguly) wanted to make sure that he built the team. I remember Yuvraj Singh was struggling at the start of his career for quite a few matches. Ganguly backed him. He knew that if I back this guy, some amazing things can happen in the future and certainly it did happen. Not only Yuvraj, Ganguly also backed youngsters like Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ganguly was handed the reins of the Indian team after the 2000 match-fixing scandal broke that ended the career of the then captain Mohammed Azharuddin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe (Ganguly) built the team when the India team was in a slump. People did not love cricket because it was a tough time for cricket in India. Making people love the Indian cricket team again, the credit should be given to Sourav Ganguly. That is why if we talk about leader, he was the leader of the players. Ganguly had only one agenda. To make sure Indian team grows. Nothing else,\u201d Pathan opined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former opener led India between 2010 and 2011 in six odi\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":24219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[103,301],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-gautam-gambhir","tag-irfan-pathan"],"reading_time":"3 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}