Dhoni got the job in 2007 because Tendulkar, standing at first slip, realised that the young wicket keeper was already thinking like a leader. And Virat Kohli said, before he became captain, that he was always involved in the game, running up to the captain to offer suggestions etc. It came as no surprise that each of these three seemed ready to become the leader because in their minds they had already started thinking like one.
