Dhoni: everybody expected this rough patch

India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is not surprised with his team’s rough patch in the Tests and said on Wednesday that his boys are high on morale ahead of the fourth and the final Test against England that will be their only chance to avoid a series defeat at home. “Everybody was talking about this phase in Indian cricket when the big players would move on and the pressure will come on the youngsters and we may go through a rough patch. I think everybody expected this kind of a patch,” Dhoni said. “Of course, we have struggled in the last two Tests. If you ask big questions depending on two Test matches...it (a situation) may come in the future too where we may lose two Test matches and people will say, okay all these youngsters should go out and someone else should come in,” Dhoni said. Asked if his position as the skipper was threatened, Dhoni said: “When people appreciate me a lot, I don’t feel as if I am in seventh heaven. And it’s the same when people criticise me. We (Indians) have extreme opinions.”