Mumbai, June 30: Indian team director Ravi Shastri has quashed reports of unrest in the dressing room over captaincy issues and said Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni have "tremendous" mutual respect between them.
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Mutual trust among the group
"There is also mutual trust among the group. They want to play for each other and genuinely enjoy each other's success. That is the healthiest quality a team can have." (Rahane named captain)
Shastri's involvement with the team has been lauded by a lot of players and he is said to have brought in a lot of positivity into the outfit.
"It's basically about making them believe in their own abilities and that as a unit they are one of the best in the world. When it's constantly mentioned and when you have results to prove it, it becomes infectious and is transferred from one player to another," said Shastri, who played 80 Tests and 150 ODIs for India, scoring 3,830 and 3,108 runs respectively.
Bad loss against Bangladesh
"In the eight months that I have been with the team, we have won about 75 to 80 per cent of the ODIs," Shastri, who has 151 Test and 129 ODI wickets to his credit, added.
The former Mumbai star is confident that the team will bounce back after the 1-2 series loss to neighbours Bangladesh.
"Yes, we had a bad loss against Bangladesh but you learn from that and bounce back. This team has been through some tough terrain, in England and Australia, and they would have learned a hell of a lot from those tours," he said.
IANS