After captain Virat Kohli and coach Ravi Shastri's backing, chief selector MSK Prasad too threw his weight around Dhoni, virtually confirming his ticket for the 2019 World Cup in England.
Prasad was effusive in his praise on Sunday.
"We are grooming some wicketkeepers during India A tours. But more or less, we have fixed up (our) minds till the World Cup (on continuing with Dhoni) and after that at later stages we will start grooming some of those (wicket-keepers).
"I think MS Dhoni still remains the No 1 wicket-keeper in the world and day in and day out we have been saying this. In the current T20 series (against Sri Lanka), the stumpings he has effected and caught-behind he has taken are phenomenal.
"There is no comparison and I don't see any wicket-keeper, who can even come closer to him in world cricket, leave alone Indian cricket," Prasad's statement more or less sealed the fate of all young keepers till the 2019 World Cup.
(With inputs from PTI)