Would look silly if India managed to come back in the series some how.
India deserve respect, don?t write them off: Dileep Premachandran | The CricketerEngland may yet win this series 4-0. They may yet dominate the Test arena for a decade. But till that happens, a sense of perspective might be useful. Not to mention a little respect.
The lack of acclimatisation is incredible- combined with players having either done IPL or sat out previous series on top of that- the warm ups and 'rotation' of certain players certainly have the hallmarks of Fletcher's management strategy!The way that India have scheduled this tour is reminiscent of the way the ECB did the 2006/07 Ashes series - I'm hoping for a parallel scoreline as well
I honestly think that a lot of the excitiment has been due to how terrible India looked. The bowling looked powder-puff and the much-vaunted batting line-up, while having many more career runs, averages less than Englands.They have gone OTT. Sure it was a great win and yeah our form this last 2 years has been outstanding but one win doesn't necessarily herald some long term changing of the guard. On top of which as I said before, expect India to come back hard. Smacks a bit of hyperbole on the part of certain pundits and as we know, pride can come before a fall.
Quite true. We played very well indeed, but have to say- thinking about it, out of the top 6 and Dhoni, only Mukhund and Dravid produced in their 1st Innings with Laxman and Raina in the 2nd. Their bowling was mostly patchy, though Kumar did well in the 1st Innings and Sharma a brilliant spell in the 2nd- Harbhajan was appalling throughout, what was it 1/200ish. As well as we played, I expected a lot more from India.I honestly think that a lot of the excitiment has been due to how terrible India looked. The bowling looked powder-puff and the much-vaunted batting line-up, while having many more career runs, averages less than Englands.
Of course, what happened last game will not automatically happen again. As I said previously, if India play well and England dont then India can easily win the next Test or two. But it isnt hard to be high on England and low on India at the moment.