Top 5 "unlucky" moments of MS Dhoni

Injury woes – losing prime bowlers in crunch series

Zaheer Khan at Lords: The injury that changed the series

Although India has won literally everything under the leadership of MS Dhoni, he has never been able to field a full strength bowling attack in any major tournament. Umesh Yadav and Varun Aaron has been permanent fixtures on the injury list while Zaheer Khan has been in and out of the Indian team for the most part of the last five years.

However, MS Dhoni’s English foray received the biggest jolt when on the first morning of the series Zaheer Khan pulled his hamstring at Lords. On a rain marred day, under overcast conditions, Zaheer Khan had the English batsmen under some discomfort till he pulled up in his delivery stride.

After receiving some treatment on field, Zaheer limped off with figures of 2 for 18 in 13.3 overs leaving India without a strike bowler on the very first day of a very important Test series.

Dhoni hoped that it would be a minor scare but his worst nightmare came true when the experienced left-armer was ruled out of the entire series with an injured right hamstring.

If Zaheer’s injury was the start of a horrible series for India, Dhoni had another bad news waiting for him before the beginning of the 3rd Test. Harbhajan Singh went out of the series with a torn abdominal muscle. Although Harbhajan was in terrible form and had combined figures of two for 287 from the first two Tests, his loss docked India a few precious points in the experience department.

There was more – along with the two experienced bowlers, India also lost Yuvraj Singh owing to a fractured finger.

India lost the series 4-0 thanks to some horrendous show on the field but when you lose three front line players during the series, there’s not much that the captain can do.