Australia’s Ricky Ponting and India’s MS Dhoni are two of the greatest captains to have ever graced the game of cricket. While Dhoni is the only captain to win all three ICC white-ball trophies, Ponting led Australia to two World Cup triumphs in 2003 and 2007, as well as two Champions Trophy titles.
Rating who is the better captain between Dhoni and Ponting is a difficult task, but it was not that tough for the former Australia spinner Brad Hogg. Well, Hogg rated Dhoni higher than Ponting despite the fact that the latter is considered as the most successful captain in Australian cricket history.
However, the former Australia spinner admitted that it’s tough to pick one between the two legends of the game, but he feels that Dhoni had to deal with a lot of politics, and that’s why he picked the legendary wicketkeeper-batter as the better skipper than Ponting.
Brad Hogg said on his YouTube channel: “Ricky Ponting had a wonderful team. MS Dhoni had a great team as well. For me, both did exceptionally well, both have got a fantastic record. You cannot separate them. I’d say that MS Dhoni probably had more politics to deal with in Indian cricket than what Ricky Ponting did. That probably puts Dhoni slightly in front of Ricky Ponting.”
He added, “The other thing with Ricky Ponting is he had a lot of cricketers around that were really experienced and knew their roles and knew what to do as well. He only had to control certain aspects of the game.
Most of the attitudes of the players, the discipline of the players, the plans of the players knowing what to do, they all knew it. It’s a tough one, but MS Dhoni with the extra politics that he might have had in India, probably just puts him in front. Sorry, Ricky!”
