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Former India captain Mohammed Azharuddin expressed shock and surprise at Ravi Shastri omitting Sourav Ganguly from his list of best captains. Shastri had praised MS Dhoni, hailing him the ‘dada of all captains’, and kept him ahead of Kapil Dev, Ajit Wadekar and Tiger Pataudi, adding ‘there is no one else’. (No hurrah for MS Dhoni) “It was such a stupid thing to say,” Azhar told HT from Hyderabad, referring to Shastri’s running feud with Sourav Ganguly. “Can’t he see statistics? It doesn’t matter to me what he thinks of people but when Shastri refers to great Indian captains, his personal bias shouldn’t be used to insult those who have contributed more to Indian cricket,” he said. (Ranji Trophy final Day 2 live) For the record, MS Dhoni has been India’s most successful Test captain, winning 27 Tests during his tenure. Ganguly stands second with 21 while Azhar and Virat Kohli are tied third with 14 Test wins each. Shastri and Ganguly fell apart when the three-member Cricket Advi...

While MS Dhoni may have been coerced to step down as limited overs captain of the Indian cricket team, the development has rekindled a recently dormant debate in the cricketing fraternity -- who the best Indian skipper of all time is. In hailing MS Dhoni, former player and team director, Ravi Shastri, has discreetly thrown a punch to add to his long exchange of verbal volleys with Sourav Ganguly. A day after the announcement by the Board for Cricket Control in India (BCCI), Ravi Shastri praised MS Dhoni’s decision in an interview with Wisden India, saying, “My salaam to a dada captain”. Furthermore, he said Mahendra Singh Dhoni was “easily India’s most successful captain” and named Kapil Dev, Ajit Wadekar and Mansoor Ali Khan as the only other cricketers worth terming as successful Indians captains. This has given Virat (Kohli) time till the Champions Trophy to prepare for the title defence. MS (Dhoni) has won everything there is to win, he really has nothing to prove. Aga...