After being crushed in the second ODI, the jittery Indians take on the West Indians in the third ODI tomorrow. The worrying factor of the Indian camp will be the form of their top order batsman.

With the series being locked at 1-1, both the teams will fight hard in the third encounter to secure a place from where they cannot lose the series.

However the Indian camp is desperate to make amends for their early exit from the Twenty20 World Cup last month.

Failures of top order batsman Gambhir and Rohit Sharma add to the worries along with the mixed form of the Tamil Nadu wicket-keeper Dinesh Karthick.

"We should have paid a little more respect to the bowlers (in the last match). The wicket was a bit difficult, it was swinging around a bit. We didn't judge the wicket well and just went around playing our strokes which really brought our downfall," Dhoni said.

"Once you lose too many wickets then the only thing that you are doing is catching up. RP and me had a partnership otherwise it would have been quite embarrassing," he said.

The tired Indians can certainly throw away their shoes at least for a month since their next schedule starts on early September with a Tri-Series with New Zealand and the hosts Sri-Lanka.

It’s been a long journey for the camp that showed a consistent success over the last calendar year till the T20 World Cup. Dhoni’s brave hearts will be expecting to close their long run on a winning note to get some sort of pride for the heavy T20 loss.