Captain's Corner: Allan Border vs Sunil Gavaskar

Conclusion

Border's numbers are enough to suggest that he is a much better captain than Gavaskar

Allan Border and Sunil Gavaskar are both terrific cricketers with quite different styles of captaincy. Gavaskar adopted a pretty conservative technique which helped India stay unbeaten in a number of matches but could not fetch many victories.

Border, on the other hand, had a similar technique but later on became an aggressive skipper which eventually helped Australia lift the 1987 World Cup. Towards the end of his career, he established himself as a wonderful captain.

Both Border and Gavaskar are players of herculean proportion but as far as captaincy is concerned, the Australian is way, way ahead than the Indian opener. Border’s Test numbers as a captain may not be as convincing as the likes of Steve Waugh or Ricky Ponting but are still better than those of Gavaskar.

His ODI records as a captain have been pretty good and are quite better compared to those of Gavaskar. Hence, by looking at their numbers it is more than fair to tell that Allan Border was a much better skipper compared to Sunil Gavaskar.