“They go for their shots and there will be times when they fall attempting a stroke and could be criticised for doing so. But you need to back them.” Dhoni added that Uthappa and Gambhir were maturing as batsmen.

The India captain praised his spinners and said the nature of the pitch prompted the inclusion of left-arm spinner Murali Kartik. He said the ODI and the Twenty20 wins in Mumbai would give his team the confidence ahead of the five-match ODI home series against Pakistan. “This game is more about confidence than technique,” he said.

Dhoni’s boys tamed Australia in the Twenty20 international in Mumbai on Saturday night but the wicket-keeper batsman fears that the return contests in Australia this summer might endup being one-sided because of India’s gruelling schedule.

“We have a 10-day gap right now, and in between the Pakistan series and the Australian series we have just a three or four day gap,” Dhoni,who was icing a niggling knee injury, was quoted as saying to New Zealand Herald.

“It’s quite tough on the cricketers, but that’s the way it goes,” Dhoni added.