#4 Dhoni's irreplaceable experience
Talking about pure impact, no one has had more impact than this man in international cricket. When every cricketing nation goes through a downslide during the transition phase when greats of the game retire. Despite the retirement of great ODI players like Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid, India always remained a force in limited overs format. That has been due to his experience in handling players and situations.
We have been seeing how he runs live tutorial classes on spinning bowling to Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal during every game. We have witnessed the growth of them and even they give a major credit MSD for the same. Even fast bowlers have followed his piece of advice and reaped success with young Khaleel being the latest entrant. Moreover, when it comes to death overs he has been setting fields and ringing in changes which has helped Bhuvi & Bumrah to be a potent death bowling pair.
These T20Is could be a test of character for the death bowlers, as India hasn't had the best of time against Windies in T20Is. Dhoni's inputs here would not only be valuable to win this series but also, perhaps, the World Cup in June. In the last few ICC tournaments, India have had instances when they have lost in the finals or semi-finals due to one or two no-balls. Dhoni, being a shrewd reader of the game, might be able to find the reason and hence correct those small loopholes before the mega event.
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