With critics gunning for his head, India ODI captain Mahendra Singh, perhaps for the first time in his career, finds himself in a very challenging situation.

Facing one of the toughest phases of his cricketing life, an under-fire Dhoni will seek to revive his career and change the fortunes of a dispirited Indian team against South Africa in the second One-dayer in Indore, on Wednesday.

India are yet to taste victory since the South African team's arrival in the country, having lost two Twenty20 Internationals (the third one was abandoned) before suffering a close five-run defeat in the first ODI.

Dhoni, in particular, is in a spot. The year 2015 hasn't been a happy one for him after the semi-final loss in the World Cup.

The loss in the IPL final was followed by humiliation in Bangladesh in the ODI series, and the T20Is against the Proteas proved to be yet another no-contest.

While the public debate on Dhoni's poor run with the bat in the recent few months continues, stats guru Rajneesh Gupta comes up with a detailed statistical feature on the India captain.

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