Dhoni has a lot going for him as a leader, but somebody who keeps passing the buck is going to lose the respect of his team, and then it becomes much harder to make that extra collective effort for a win.

Licking the wounds of yet another series defeat, India's struggling cricketers will seek to restore some pride when they go into the last one-dayer against arch rivals Pakistan on Sunday.

Pakistan's pace department once again rocked the famed Indian batting line-up to hand the visitors an 85-run win, which enabled them to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.

The series defeat against Pakistan marks another low for the struggling team which suffered an embarrassing Test series debacle against England at home and levelled a T20 series 1-1.
The match as it happened

Tendulkar will also miss event, to start practice from today.