Soon after Anil Kumble was announced as the Head Coach of Team India, BCCI has held a practice and a bonding session among the players in Bangalore. India’s limited-overs skipper MS Dhoni also had participated in this session. He had been a great inspiration to the young team since he took the Captaincy.

Though the session was for Indian Test Squad, Dhoni attended the event to give a motivation to the young team touring West Indies ahead for 4-match Test series. “If we can have fun with this, we can have fun in cricket,” he said.

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“Most of us started playing cricket when we were five. I think this is the period when Indian cricket will move forward. Last two years, three years, we were talking about youngsters getting into Test cricket. Now, we have a set of batsmen who are into the Test arena. We have a pool of bowlers. We are not talking about two, three or four batsmen but a lot of batsmen. And, we are talking about a lot of bowlers. And, this is the phase which is going to be very interesting,” Dhoni said.

“Stay together, all of you won’t have a very good series. Some of you will fail. But, with 17 Test matches, all of you will be successful. So, it is important to enjoy the period which is tough. But, till you stick together, till you enjoy, I don’t think there is anything that will stop you,” he said.

“Make sure that you have a lot of fun. That is something that we in Indian cricket don’t often do. Cricket is too much for us. For a lot of us, if you take cricket out of our personal lives, there aren’t many things left. So, we actually give it a lot of importance. But, it is important to have fun. And these 45 minutes that we spent here, it just suggests that we can have fun anywhere in the world. We just need the company of us,” Dhoni concluded.