One of India’s most successfull and celebrated cricketers, Yuvraj Singh recently opened up on which Indian captain he considers the best. The star all-rounder revealed that even though he started his career under Sourav Ganguly and played most of his career under Mahendra Sigh Dhoni, he feels Anil Kumble was a great leader. He also played under Rahul Dravid and Virat Kohli.
“Kumble became the Test captain when we came to Australia. I thought Kumble was a guy whose attitude was to take the ball when the situation is tough, not give it to another guy or when the wickets are falling let me take the ball," Yuvraj said on the Club Prairie Fire Podcast by Adam Gilchrist alongside Michael Vaughan.
“So I thought that kind of attitude was great in a leader. That’s why I talk about Ricky [Ponting] had the mentality of a leader, of stepping in to bat when the situation is tough, whatever the situation is, he is ready to bat."
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Kumble captained Team India in 14 Testss and won three before MS Dhoni was handed the reigns in all three formats.
“I think when the team went to Dhoni, we had a really good coach, Gary Kirsten, who actually made us believe that we can win the World Cup, be the number one Test side and Dhoni was a good captain as well."
“Sourav was more of being aggressive, trying to take teams head-on. What I liked about Dhoni was, he always had a plan B. Like if plan A doesn’t work, go to plan B. So different captains," Yuvraj added.
“I got in the side when Sourav was the captain. He kind of gave us a lot of confidence and a lot of chances because we were younger, we were not consistent. Like myself and Sehwag and Bhajji [Harbhajan Singh] and Zaheer Khan. He kind of stick to us for a bit because he knew that these guys can be match-winners in the future," he added.
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