When MS Dhoni and Rohit Sharma were sparring against each other in the final of the Indian Premier League earlier this month, Virat Kohli was holidaying. Royal Challengers Bangalore’s IPL campaign was over much before the play-offs started. Each time he lost a game in the league – eight defeats in all –, each time he looked helpless when his bowlers were hit all over the park, each time when RCB couldn’t stage a comeback, you thought ‘what if Kohli had MS Dhoni to shuffle fielders, Rohit Sharma to suggest a bowling change, Jasprit Bumrah to bowl at the death or the duo of Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal operating in tandem’. As a leader, he looked lost. But come June 5, when India take on South Africa in the first game of the 2019 World Cup, he will have a team that will give him more confidence than the RCB outfit that he led. In Dhoni and Sharma, he will have two strong leadership pillars to lean on. The positive relationship he shares with the two will come in handy at the showpiece event where pressure can crack the best. There weremurmurs about how their relationship will play out…