Take this job and shove it

So Rahul Dravid has resigned as Indian captain. For what its worth, I have mixed feelings about this decision. Dravid was not a spectacular captain but he was well-liked and respected in the team (says someone who has no idea what goes on in the dressing room!), and could be considered a reasonable talent at bridging the inevitable differences within any Indian team. He also presented a cultured, articulate face of Indian cricket to the rest of the world (which still has not recovered from the in-your-face attitude of Sourav Ganguly; when the history of this phase of world cricket will be written, psychological tracts detailing the hysterical response of the cricketing world to Ganguly should take pride of place). But clearly, Dravid the batsman was not doing so well. The hero of Adelaide, Headingley, Rawalpindi was struggling to put together long innings, and it was pretty clear he was not enjoying the attendant grief of having to answer to a billion dufuses like me. So, the search for a new Indian captain begins. It would give me great pleasure to see Ganguly back as captain against Pakistan and Australia (could there be a pair of teams that would be more riled up by Ganguly? I doubt it). But one must realistically acknowledge that there is very little chance of this happening (snowballs in hell come to mind). Having said that, its not clear who is ready to become Indian captain. I would suspect it would be Anil Kumble, who will almost certainly be in the team for both tours, is the most experienced, and possesses a good cricketing brain. There is little danger he will overbowl himself (indeed, he might give himself a little break!). I'm a little worried though, about the tongue-lashings he will hand out in public to the team-members for failing to cut off boundaries; I'm also worried about the effect this might have on his batting (er, thats a joke).