There were ascents of redoubtable peaks, and there was the plumbing of some abject troughs, but at the end of the decade ending 2019, the Indian men’s cricket team has emerged as one of the most successful outfits in the world. India became world No. 1 in Test rankings and are currently No. 2 in ODI and T20 formats. For most part of this period, the talismanic Mahendra Singh Dhoni was captain, winning the 2011 World Cup (sealing it with that imperturbably swung six), the 2013 Champions Trophy, came tantalisingly close to clinching the 2014 T20 World Cup and reached the semi-finals of the 2015 World Cup.