Previously, ex-Indian opener Gautam Gambhir had also expressed his thoughts on how Dhoni enjoyed the fruits of Ganguly's hard work during his captaincy years.
Former South Africa cricketer Graeme Smith has expressed his thoughts on what separates MS Dhoni and Sourav Ganguly as Team India skippers.
Ganguly is widely renowned for building a fearless squad of Indian cricketers while also incorporating and providing the freedom to youngsters like Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, and Ashish Nehra during his time as the Indian captain.
Meanwhile, Team India under the leadership of Dhoni won the T20 World Cup in 2007, the ICC Men's World Cup in 2011 and the 2013 Champions Trophy.
"The biggest difference between Dada’s captaincy and MS’s captaincy is MS, the player for me. I think in that middle order, the ability to close games, win games, finish games in that calm that he brought to the people around him. I think for me, that is probably the biggest difference between the two heroes, is MS Dhoni," Smith said.
"If Dada had an MS type player, his team was slightly more developed, I think you would have seen him win plenty more trophies."
"Dada was blessed to play or not blessed to play in an era where Australian cricket was at the forefront and dominating the world game as well which at the time the team had won the most during that period," he added.
Under Ganguly's captaincy, India won 21 out of 49 Tests while securing the NatWest Series in 2002 in style and also made the final of the 2003 World Cup.
Previously, ex-Indian opener Gautam Gambhir had also expressed his thoughts on how Dhoni enjoyed the fruits of Ganguly's hard work during his captaincy years.
Gambhir -- who played under the captaincy of both Ganguly and Dhoni -- also spoke on the topic of when Sourav ended his stint as the Indian skipper, provided MS with world-beaters when he took over the charge.
"When MS Dhoni finished (his captaincy stint), he hasn’t given enough quality players to Virat Kohli, apart from Virat Kohli himself and Rohit Sharma, or Jasprit Bumrah now."
"There are not too many world-beaters or probably people who win you tournaments," Gambhir had said.
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