Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his men were named the ‘Team of the Year’ by London’s Sunday Telegraph.

The paper also rated Sachin Tendulkar overtaking Brian Lara as the highest Test run-scorer as the ‘Feat of the Year’. The leading British paper heaped praise on the Indian team and its most celebrated member for taking the game to a higher level. Choosing the side as the ‘Team of the Year’, the paper said, “Their 2-0 Test series victory over Australia officially ended their opponents’ era of relentless domination. And then England suffered. Talent oozes from their every pore. “Retiring legends are being replaced with astonishing ease. There is depth in every department, and in Mahendra Singh Dhoni they possess not just a wonderful leader but a wonderfully impressive man too,” Steve James wrote in the daily.

Describing Tendulkar’s overtaking of Brian Lara as Test cricket’s highest run-scorer as ‘Feat of the Year’, the writer said it reflected “genuine confirmation of greatness”.