Sachin Tendulkar
You can be ‘God of Cricket’ in your own way, but the system measuring an Indian captain’s performance doesn’t change. This is the ultimate lesson Tendulkar learnt but in the hard way when he was appointed as the captain of the Indian team. Interestingly by the time he became captain, he was already a superstar, and for this, expectations were excessively big from him.
Sachin enjoyed a dream start to his captaincy tenure when he won home Tests against Australia & South Africa. The triangular Titan Cup involving Australia & South Africa his best also witnessed captain Sachin at. But that was it, if you consider his successful run as captain. He had no other option but to resign from captaincy in 1997 and the reigns were passed on to Mohammad Azharuddin.
However, in 1999 Tendulkar came back to captain the side, but after going through another disappointing spell he had to quit captaincy for good in 2000. Sachin since then went on to play international cricket for more than a decade but never dared to try his hands at captaincy again.