A great era has come to an end. Good captains are rare. And so, letting Sourav Ganguly improve, rather than removing him, is the solution. Captaincy is a specialist's job. Captaincy is not a reward for good batting or bowling. Great batsmen don't always make great leaders, Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar being two recent examples. Only two jobs are of any consequence in India. The Prime Minister's and the cricket captain's. In other words, the captain has a high-pressure, media-intrusive job. No wonder, every Indian skipper goes through a bad phase. It's no different abroad. Take for example Michael Vaughan, England's highly successful skipper. As a player, his ODI average is 28.36 lower than Ganguly's 40.65. The only thing he backed was talent. If Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag, Mohammed Kaif and Irfan Pathan are doing India proud today, it's because Dada backed them through thick and thin.
Being India's skipper requires a different set of skills