5 captaincy luxuries that Virat Kohli has that MS Dhoni didn't

#5 Death bowlers

Bumrah and Bhuvaneshwar have been phenomenal in the death overs

Specialist death bowlers are an important component of established teams. Every successful team has at least one death bowler in their team. The presence of death bowlers helps the team to minimise the damage in the end overs.

Dhoni spent a majority of his post-match press conferences ruing the lack of specialist death bowlers in his team.The Indian team lost a number of matches not being able to defend 300+ targets under Dhoni and the lack of death bowlers was an important factor in the losses.

Bumrah and Bhuvaneshwar Kumar are performing the role of death bowlers to perfection and the recent results of the Indian team give a good indication of the role that the good death bowlers play in winning matches

There have been a number of articles written comparing Dhoni's and Kohli's captaincy abilities and a majority of them considered Kohli's captaincy to be better than Dhoni's. The problem, however, is the comparison of apples and oranges. Kohli has had a splendid run as the captain but he has a number of luxuries which no other Indian captain had.

When we are comparing captaincy abilities of captains from different eras it is important to also look into the team that the captains had at his disposal. The team that Kohli has is better than most Indian teams and therefore the results are also better. In the end, the captain is only as good as his team and Dhoni needs to be given credit for what he has done to the team rather than comparing him with Kohli and other captains.