Sachin Tendulkar captained India in 98 matches across formats.
Indian politician Shashi Tharoor has been following cricket since a long time and he got his prediction wrong in the 1990s. He believed Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar would become a great captain because of his greatness in other aspects of the game.
Sachin Tendulkar was the star of Indian cricket in the 1990s. By 1996, he had sown signs of becoming the greatest batsman in the world and was expected to become a good captain as well. He was handed the leader's role in 1996 for the first time. However, his team could not deliver the expected results. Four years later, he was once again made captain but stepped down from the post soon after.
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Shashi Tharoor told SportsKeeda, "I thought Tendulkar was the best possible captain of India before he became captain. Because when he was not captain, he was so active - he was fielding in the slips, running up to the captain of the day, giving advice and encouragement."
"I said let’s make this guy captain because he really is there in every way. When he became captain, it didn’t work out. He had a not terribly strong Indian team in his days of captaincy, but he himself would admit that was not the most inspirational, motivational captain," he added.
Tendulkar had to fulfil massive expectations thrust upon him as a batsman and that had a negative effect on his captaincy according to Mr Tharoor.
"This was partially because he had his own batting to think about. And in the end, he happily gave up captaincy and refused to take it when it was offered again later," he concluded.
(Excerpts from SportsKeeda)