Virat Kohli captain on paper but MS Dhoni on ground: Suresh Raina

"Once a captain always a captain" is what Suresh Raina feels about Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who remains a leader on the field even though not on paper.

Despite quitting ODI and T20 captaincy in 2017, three years after he retired from Test cricket, Dhoni still remains the cricketing brain behind the Indian team, something even skipper Virat Kohli has acknowledged.

"On paper, he's not the captain. On the ground he's the captain for Virat I think," the out-of-favor India batsman told PTI in an interview from the Netherlands, where he is holidaying with his family.