Dhoni unhappy with just one warm-up game

Even vice-captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (stand-in skipper for this Test) also admitted that India would remain short of match practice before the first Test, because one warm-up game was not enough to get acclimatised. “It’s always better to have a few sessions before a big Test match (and) we don’t really have much time for practice,” Dhoni was quoted as saying in the Sydney Morning Herald. “You’d love to have more time, but that’s too many ifs and buts. If it rains there’s nothing that can be done about it — we’ll go to the indoors and have a knock, do whatever we can,” he said.