It is pointless to compare Dhoni with Pataudi as the captain. Any captain is as good as his team. Clive Lloyd won two world cups in seventies but today if you make him lead the side with present bunch of players it will not make much difference to West Indies ranking. Most recent example is of Ricky Ponting. He won two world cups as a captain but today with a different set of players who were no patch on Haddin, Martin Gilchrest or McGrath , he could not take his side even to semi finals. Never in the past any Indian captain had such a wonderful bunch of players- Sehwag the most feared batsman in the world, Tendulkar, the best and most consistent batsman in the world, Gambhir a world class batsman, Laxman, he can walk in to any side in the world solid and reliable like Kallis then Doni himself a world class player. Not to forget Zahir the most effective fast bowler in the game and Yuvraj the most useful all-rounder in ODI.and last our Harbhajan, even while on decline he continues to be a threat.
In the last fifty years standard, popularity& general interest in cricket has gone up considerably in India and it was bound to get rewarded. Likewise there has been decline in England and West Indies which the results reflect abundantly
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