Dhoni wants to become the skipper in all three formats of cricket

New Delhi: Mahendra Singh Dhoni wants to continuing as the skipper of the Indian cricket team in all the three formats, saying it would be unfair to burden a new player with the mantle of captaincy with just one year left for the World Cup.
“I think, it’s a point of no return with the World Cup literally one year away from now. It won’t give a new guy the ideal time to play, at least, 70-80-90 games beginning to the World Cup that’s what we would like to have him play before the World Cup”, Dhoni said.
“I was really fortunate to see where I am right now with the amount of cricket that we are playing these days. As of now, it’s looking good. The body is closely knit together. How it will be (in future), I don’t know but so far so good,” he said.

As the talks veered towards India’s disastrous tour of South Africa, where the Men in Blue lost both the ODI and Test series, Dhoni said one bad session in Durban cost them the second Test.

“Yes, we had some tough times. We had a bad session. We had one really bad session because of which we were on the losing side,” he said.

However, as always, Dhoni picked up the positives from the Proteas series.

“I think the process is more important. The last couple of series before the South African series were I can’t even say a decent or a bad one, it can go worse than that, but the good thing is that at least we know the players are there. We had a lot of good sessions in South Africa,” Dhoni said.

“It’s a process where we have to improve and also the fact that now we will be continuously playing out of India, so it will give more exposure to the players. Most of the players, who are part of the side barring a few, they have not played, may be, more than five Test matches outside India. I know they will take some time but the overall performance was good,” he added.

Critics have often questioned Indian bowlers’ ability to take 20 wickets on foreign soil and Dhoni said it’s one area where the team needs to improve.

It was, after all, the fast bowlers’ inability to dismiss the South African batsmen twice on a helpful pitch at Wanderers that deprived India of a Test win.