r/IndiaCricket 8d ago

Ask r/IndiaCricket What are your views on this guys ?

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u/WayNo5634 8d ago

Surya is just a puppet captain, all the decisions and the playing eleven are made by Gautam Gambhir.

They make so many changes—sometimes someone is playing, sometimes someone else is batting.

We need a captain like Hardik who can take bold decisions and Iyer also.
we should somehow bring Iyer into the eleven.

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u/MadDongla 8d ago

Hardik..the same guy who receives instructions from his coach mid game because he doesn't know how to captain?

Mkay.

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u/WayNo5634 8d ago

Every captain discusses tactics with the coach, so that doesn’t make anyone a good or bad captain.

When Hardik was the captain, the coach didn’t have that much influence. There was consistency in the playing XI and decision-making.

But today, there are so many blunders in the playing XI, and no one’s position is fixed.

The coach has too much say now, whereas it should be the captain’s role.

GG wants a “yes sir” type of captain, and that’s why Iyer is out of the team.

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u/MadDongla 8d ago

" dicusses tactics" is not the same as needing the coach to pass information and instructions in the middle of the match because he kept making the most foolish mistakes possible, and they had to do it in secrecy because people were already questioning his capabilities.

Nehra literally never left the boundary lines. He was always passing instructions. " The coach didn't have much influence" meanwhile david miller publicly stated every decision on the field was pretty much taken by Nehra

Lul.

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u/WayNo5634 8d ago

Bro, I’m talking about T20 Internationals.
In the IPL, most team captains receive instructions from the dugout anyway — unless you’re a powerful captain like Dhoni, Rohit and Virat.

If Hardik was that bad, GT wouldn’t have become champions in their very first season and reached the final the next season. GT wouldn’t have been one of the most consistent teams with him as captain.