A lot of people who were criticising Rahane Shastri for not picking up Kuldeep are hailing him as a 'great captain'.Captaincy is one trait that continues to be judged on hindsight & results. If anything, captaincy is one thing, which should have the least correlation with results https://twitter.com/gurkiratsgill/status/1349906960607375360

Captaincy is about managing resources & coming up with tactics to change the flow of the game. It's about having a Plan B or Plan C ready if Plan A fails (something Dhoni was adept at in LOs). It is about understanding match ups in T20s and setting fields to get batsmen out.

Dhoni was the first to come up with the leg side trap in 2014, but he didn't have the bowlers to bowl with that discipline which Indian bowlers did this time. Similarly, Hussain was the first one to realise that to get Sachin out was to restrict his https://twitter.com/gurkiratsgill/status/1349919254347358212?s=19

scoring and ask Giles to keep bowling outside the leg stump and make him force the play. Good captaincy was RCB promoting Sundar/Dube ahead of AB in IPL and the XI that they played in the eliminator. People often forget that captaincy is about creating better odds, but results

are still dependent on the players who have to execute it. A lot of people would have moaned about Kuldeep's omission if India would have lost the test and Sundar and/or Natrajan having a bad game. Captaincy DOES NOT control results, it only aids in a minor way. And the affect

of it is least in the Tests because over 450 overs of cricket, the quality of players will reign supreme. It is in T20s where captaincy holds more value because only in shorter formats can tactics/moves trump quality. It is next to impossible for tactics/moves to trump quality

in Tests. While Rahane was spot on in MCG as a captain, people have forgotten how he didn't bowl Jadeja on Day 1 in SCG and overbowled Bumrah in the 2nd innings. Something similar happened to Saini as well in the 2nd innings at Gabba. While he should be praised for his composure,

grit & determination in sticking to a brand of cricket, one should analyse what happened on 4th day as well a little carefully. @mainlycricket had posted a thread on captaincy a few months, and it would be great if others could read it as well. https://twitter.com/gurkiratsgill/status/1351008820445794314?s=19