5. Charismatic and Aggressive Captain
Clive Lloyd was more of the most inspirational captain who took the reins of the team from Sir Garfield Sobers in the 1970s. He was quite a perfect assessment of the side’s needs and built a team with top-class players and backed them to perform well. It is believed that the ‘Super Cat’ himself assembled the brutal bowling line-up that was never seen before.
He handpicked Michael Holding, Colin Croft to join the experienced Andy Roberts to form a pace attack that destroyed the opponents’ batting for years. His aggressive captaincy added even more flavor to the Caribbean team which went on to rule the world. He carried the team on his shoulders destroying every single team they played against and hence establishing Windies’ bandwagon.
His Indian counterpart, Virat Kohli is quite similar in traits to the Windies counterpart and possesses equal charisma on the field leading the side. Taking the responsibility of the team from his mentor Dhoni, the Delhi-born skipper changed the course through his aggressive leadership and hunger to win matches especially abroad. Team India under the leadership of Kohli, is no more a pushover and always plays attacking brand of cricket.
Kohli was seen backing his team, learns from the mistakes and encourage youngsters due to which the team’s performance has enhanced over the years. Under Kohli, they have displayed the intent to win big matches against top quality sides. Virat is more of a great batsman than a captain but slowly he is getting matured and developing as a great leader and the recent Australia tour proved the same.
