India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni today firmly backed teammate Suresh Raina terming the reports of the young middle-order batsman being linked with an associate of a bookie as "baseless."

"I think it is baseless," was Dhoni's curt reply to reporters when they sought his reaction on the story published by a British daily which said that Raina was seen in Sri Lanka with a woman, who is a close associate of a known bookmaker.