Former India player turned renowned commentator Aakash Chopra has recently compared Sourav Ganguly, MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli’s captaincy in the ICC tournament knockout games. There he explained how MS Dhoni managed to win so many big tournaments and added that he didn’t let the players feel insecure before a big game.

Notably, MS Dhoni successfully led India in four ICC tournament finals and out of which India won three – the 2007 T20 World Cup, 2011 ODI Word Cup and the 2013 Champions Trophy. With this, he became the only captain in the world to win all three ICC events till date as well.

Meanwhile, under Sourav Ganguly’s leadership, India had also reached three ICC tournament finals where they lost two and the 2002 Champions Trophy was washed out and they shared it with Sri Lanka. On the other hand, Virat Kohli led Indian team haven’t won any ICC trophies yet where they reached two finals – the 2017 Champions Trophy and the World Teat Championship as well.

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“Dhoni’s class has been that under him the team has flourished. The few things I see that make Dhoni the best captain in the world is that he doesn’t make changes. He didn’t make anyone feel insecure in the team,” Aakash Chopra said in his YouTube channel.

However, the opener added that MS Dhoni somehow managed to motivate the players to perform their best in knockout games.

“If you see his team from the league stage to the knockouts, the team and the protagonists have remained the same. He has always got players who make runs in the big encounters. When you reach the quarterfinals, semi-finals or a final, the team that makes the least mistakes wins, the team that panics the least and the team which consistently plays the same XI so that all players are secure in the end,” he again shared.

Aakash Chopra also gave examples of Gautam Gambhir and Yuvraj Singh and how they performed in the 2007 World T20 and the 2011 ODI World Cup as well under the captaincy of MS Dhoni.

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“That’s what MS Dhoni did for his team. If you see the 2007 and 2011 finals, you will remember Gautam Gambhir. You will remember the entire 2011 World Cup for Yuvraj Singh and Dhoni himself in the final. In 2013, you will see consistent performances from everybody. In 2014, you were left behind because only Kohli’s bat fired while it fell silent for the rest of the players. So Dhoni the captain will always be dependent on some players. The big-ticket players, they all came to the party in knockout matches,” he concluded.