India can win Twenty20 World Cup under Dhoni: Dravid

London, Sept 09: Juggling captaincy, wicket-keeping and batting is no kid`s play but Rahul Dravid has immense faith in Mahendra Singh Dhoni and feels the swashbuckler with flowing tresses can lead India to world Twenty20 triumph in South Africa later this month.Dravid said he had advised Dhoni to keep his cool but asserted the belligerent Jharkhand cricketer has a mature head on his tender shoulders that would stand him in good stead.

"I have told him to just relax and have fun," Dravid said. "In a Twenty20 game, he probably won`t have much time to think - it happens so fast. "But I think he`ll do well. He`s got a good head on his shoulders and a good personality for the job," Dravid was quoted as saying in a report by the press association, a news agency in the UK. Dhoni would have to work hard to do justice to all his roles in the sides but Dravid was confident that the youngster would come off with flying colours. "Obviously wicket-keeping and batting will be a challenge for him, with the captaincy. But what he has shown us in the last two years is maturity," Dravid said of his Team India deputy. Besides Dhoni`s maturity, the pedigree of the team makes the side so formidable, asserts Dravid. "There are some very good attacking players. Although some of the experienced players are not going, we have some others coming back with experience." The squad under Dhoni includes the likes of Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Irfan Pathan, Ajit Agarkar, Dinesh Kaarthick, Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla, S Sreesanth And Rp Singh. Dravid, along with Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly, had opted out of the Indian Twenty20 squad. Dravid, however, sounded far from content while dwelling on the Indian side`s 3-4 defeat in the ODI series against England. Trailing 1-3, India bounced back to level it but lost the decider at Lord`s to concede the series. And Dravid is aware of the grey areas as well. "We won three and lost four (in the NatWest Series) – so I guess we weren`t that consistent," he said. "There`s no doubt about it. It`s pretty evident there are things in one-day cricket we can improve on. Our `death` bowling, our batting - especially when we lose early wickets - our fielding. These are all things we must look to improve," he said. It`s, however, not all gloom and doom for his side, Dravid insisted. "...What`s been heartening for me right the way through these 80 days we`ve been here is that there have been contributions all around. "Everyone who has come on this tour has contributed and played his part in a good team performance. It`s not a team that has relied on one or two individuals to perform." He also had a word of praise for the current English squad even though he felt sub-continent would pose a serious threat to them. "There are a lot of youngsters in this team who are doing well. I also think the kind of squad England had was really well-suited to these kind of conditions. "It will be a challenge to see how they do when they go to Sri Lanka and looking to the next world cup," Dravid said. Bureau Report