After another listless display on the field by his players during their three-wicket loss to Sri Lanka in the second ODI in Nagpur on Friday, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said while the side had the best batting line-up and the bowlers, it's fielding standards were still below par.

In a candid admission, Dhoni said that a fielder of the calibre of former South African great Jonty Rhodes cannot be produced overnight and his team had players who were not brilliant in this department and their characters cannot be changed drastically, even by the best of fielding coaches.

India have roped in specialist fielding coach Mike Young who is connected with the Australian squad for this series as well as the Twenty20 internationals held earlier.

"You have to see the individuals also and then you have to decide on how much you can upgrade yourself. It's not that if I am fielding or you are fielding and all of a sudden there comes the coach and you become Jonty Rhodes. It's like a bowler. A spinner can't bowl fast bowling. The same way fielding is something that comes naturally. Somebody is a good fielder or he's not," the India skipper said after the Nagpur match.

"We can improve a bit but overall you can't really change the character of an individual and from someone who does not field well can't make him a brilliant fielder. We have to keep that in mind. That's why we say we accept the fact we are not a brilliant fielding side. At the end of the day we also say we have the best batting line up and our bowlers are good," the skipper said.

Dhoni said that the fielding woes are highlighted only when India lose a match. "That has been the case with us for some time now. It's just that when we win the game it does not get highlighted but when we lose it gets highlighted more. It's part and parcel of our game because this is the best batting side we have in India. Unfortunately this is not the best fielding side that we have got. We just need to accept the fact we are not the best fielders. Either we need to score may be 20 odd more runs or we need to bowl in a way we save 20 or 50 runs in our bowling."

"It's not that we are a brilliant fielding side," he said. There were several mis-fields including the crucial one by Zaheer Khan who let the ball through his legs when Sri Lanka were surging towards victory.