Dhoni has been one of the greatest cricketers India has ever produced. I am 35 years old, My first memories of watching cricket was front diving catch of ajay jadeja of the 92 Worldcup. Since I have followed cricket, we have known 5 batsmen one WK, and 5 bowlers make the team, where the WK is good for a 15 run avg and thus we have produced poor batting WK like More, Saba Karin, Mongia, Deep Dasgupta, Samir Dighe, etc.
Dhoni showed India, that a WK can bat and bat right up there with the best, and then he took Ganguly's mantle to transform the team into a world beater.
Irrespective of what the majority views on the thread are, I felt India's comback from 3/5 to such a close match which again Dhoni potentially could have turned right upto the 48.2nd over was absolutely remarkable.
In retrospect, India couldn't find two proper batsmen among the many in India, while playing two additional wk's, karthik and pant. While seasoned batsmen like Pujara, Rayadu, Shreyas Iyer, and new kids like Shubmann Gill and Prithvi Shaw are colling their heels back home.
Dismayed that we couldn't play the final, but that's how knockouts are, but still extremely proud of the allround performance of the team to the resources they played with. Karthik, Pant and Pandya have single handedly changed games in the past, today, none of them fired. The first three scored 67% of all of Indian runs in the WC, today they scored 0.014%, every thing that could go wrong for India went wrong. Chalta hai, it happens, we will rebuild and try next time.