And men who have, despite their remarkably endowed selves, have fallen prey in one painful way or the other to captain's curse. They say Indian cricket is starved of heroes. I say, we say, Indian cricket is starved of a truly outstanding captain. Indian cricket has superstars aplenty. Men whose deeds I daren't go into.
Indian cricket has talent.
Indian cricket has passion. Indian cricket has a future. Indian cricket has always, more or less, had all that. But Indian cricket has never had a captain of truly world stature. People may say Tiger Pataudi was world class.