Captain's Corner: Allan Border vs Sunil Gavaskar

#4. Home Record

Allan Border has a pretty decent captaincy record home

In Tests at home, Border surpasses Gavaskar with a win percentage of 36.54% compared to his 24.14% but that is only because of captaining Australia in more home Tests. If we take into account Border’s first 29 home Tests as captain, then he has won just as many Tests as Gavaskar did.

Here, the comparison would not be totally fair if we consider all of the ODIs captained by Allan Border at home as he has led Australia in more than 100 home ODIs than Gavaskar led India in.

Hence, to make the comparison fairer, Border’s record in his first 13 home ODIs as skipper was also considered. The World Cup winning skipper surpasses Gavaskar with a win percentage of 38.46% compared to Gavaskar’s 23.08%.

Nevertheless, Border’s captaincy in home ODIs has been pretty impressive, with the Australian winning 70 of the 114 matches in which he captained Australia.