Captain's Corner: Allan Border vs Sunil Gavaskar

#5. Performances as Captain

Allan Border's form never took a bad turn during his captaincy

Since Allan Border led Australia in nearly twice as many Tests as Sunil Gavaskar led India in, he has nearly twice as many runs as Gavaskar has as captain. However, both players have performed reasonably well as captains based on the number of Tests played by them with their batting averages nearly same and their highest score nearly identical.

In ODIs, Border has a pretty impressive record as captain with 4439 runs at an average of 32.16 while Gavaskar scored just 702 runs in 37 matches at an average of 26.

Even if the records for just 37 matches are considered, Border still surpasses Gavaskar comfortably as in his first 37 ODIs as captain, he scored 1186 runs at an average of 33.89.