Team India’s experienced spinner R Ashwin has recently told about the specialty of the captaincy of MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. This spinner, who made his international debut in 2010, has played a lot of cricket under all these three captains. In such a situation, he learned a lot from Dhoni, Kohli and Rohit. Ashwin, while telling the specialty of these three captains, also told who is the smarter captain among Dhoni, Kohli and Rohit.
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Speaking about MS Dhoni on sports journalist Vimal Kumar’s YouTube channel, Ashwin first said, “From a player’s point of view, I really liked one thing about Dhoni’s captaincy – the stability that the player gets. When he gives a player a chance, he makes him play for a long time. If you look at Jaddu (Ravindra Jadeja) or Suresh Raina, he groomed Jaddu very well in the role of a finisher and played him in the same role till the end. This benefited India. Jaddu is a great all-rounder today. So if Dhoni supported someone after identifying him, he also provided stability. I really like this thing about MS. But what people say, that he stays calm and other such things, I don’t really believe… Honestly, he looks calm.”
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Ashwin said about Kohli’s captaincy, “About Virat, he is inspirational. He sets an example by working and achieving it himself; he leads from the front. Whatever he expects from the team, he shows it himself.”
Ashwin said that captain Rohit Sharma is more intelligent than Dhoni and Kohli. He believes that Kohli and Dhoni are also tactically strong, but Rohit is better than them.
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Regarding Hitman, Ashwin said, “There are two-three things that are very good about him. He keeps the team atmosphere very light and tries to do so. He is very balanced and tactically strong – MS and Virat were also like this. But Rohit pays more attention to strategy. If a big match or series is coming up, he will sit with the analytics team and the coach and prepare, like what is the weakness of the batsman, what is the plan of the bowler. This is his strength and he also supports his players 100 percent.”