Should Sachin have captained India more?

"He (Tendulkar) obviously leads from the front and that lifts his team-mates. He is very inspiring and exceptional captain. If he fires, others also perform better by another 20 per cent.” – JP Duminy

These are special words. Words that talk more about the little master's brain than his bat. Well, we all know his bat does the talking on a cricket strip but the latest statement of Duminy is probably the best ever compliment the Sachin has received on his captaincy. What it also does is bring back the old debate. Should the master blaster have captained India for more games and longer period than he actually did.
Tell us what you readers think!

It also makes every fan of Sachin wonder why he never enjoyed captaining an Indian team when he has proved he is a class act as a skipper with the Mumbai Indians. To understand this better, let's try and compare Sachin's captaincy record with Mumbai Indians and Team India

Sachin's overall career record and as a captain

Criteria	Matches played	Won	Lost	Drawn	Win%	Batting average
Career	612	280	238	67	48%	49.28
As captain	98	27	52	12	27%	42.93

The overall record includes all forms of international cricket -Tests, ODIs and T20s. A closer look just about reveals how Sachin enjoyed the status of being a 'free bird'. Unfortunately for him, his captaincy record unlike his career record has been nothing home to write about. But, what was the reason behind such a poor record?
Poor team?
Pressure?
Bad strategies?
It is always said in cricket, test matches are the real 'test'. Both from a player's point of view as well as from a captain's point of view. Sachin got the opportunity back in 1996 when he was handed the mantle from Mohammed Azharuddin. That was a difficult era for Indian cricket. An era of transition. An era where Australia and South Africa were asking questions from every other cricketing nation in the world. Sachin captained a mediocre Indian team for 4 years. A team that played 12 out of 25 test matches under him against the dominant Oz and Proteas.
It also raises a question. Would any other captain have done any better than Sachin in that era?

Test record as captain versus non captain

Criteria	Matches played	Won	Lost	Drawn	Win%	Batting average
Career	169	57	45	67	34%	56.02
As captain	25	4	9	12	16%	51.35

By the end of it all, Sachin was worn down. As a player with averages slipping down and as a captain with wins drying up. He gave up the battle in the war of cricket.
Free from the pressures of captaincy at the start of the new millennium, Sachin Tendulkar reinvented himself. In the last decade, the champion cricketer has scaled peak after peak and in doing so, troubled the record-writers every second day. He broke the 200 run barrier in ODI cricket and notched up 26 centuries in test cricket to edge himself closer to the 14k mark. More importantly, he has defied the 'age' factor in T20 cricket and guided Mumbai Indians to their present tag of 'The Unstoppables' in the IPL. Ironically, his batting average of 47+ in IPL3 gives a measure of his T20 prowess. What's more! A win percentage of 69% out to make every captain cling on to cloud nine.

Mumbai Indians under Sachin in IPL3

Played	Won	Lost	Win%	Batting average
16	11	5	69%	47.53

With the Champions league T20 starting in less than a month, the onus will be on the master blaster as he wears the captain's arm band once again.
As he does that, we are asking (like billions of Indians), should Sachin have captained Team India for more matches than he actually did?
Have your say....