For far too long Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been indifferent to the fourth estate. This is not to say that he should bend backwards to please the Press, but his cause won’t be helped if he and more importantly, his employers the Board of Control for Cricket in India continue to ignore normal procedure.

By normal procedure, we mean, addressing the media after skipper Dhoni retired from Test cricket after the drawn result in the third Test of the 2014-15 Border-Gavaskar Trophy series at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.