Yeah and funnily enough India seemed to be in the game far more in that series than the scores indicate. But again, one bad innings or one great innings with the bat really seems to set up the game and result these days.
Makes perfect sense actually we've seen a few teams fold for under 50. Then at the other end, teams pile up massive scores in no time. We see NZ crushing India, and they themselves being trounce by England.
Don't forget South Africa who now have batters who can score test 100s
We will see. Rsa batting still leaves a lot to be desired...
So Eng are currently the 5th best test side sitting behind SL who are 4th?
Let’s not overrate Eng. They lost in Pak right after Bang won in Pak and lost 1-4 in India in the same year NZ won 3-0 in Ind. SL are very capable of beating them in SL.
I'm not overrating England at at all.........recent results have thrown this thread all over the place and one thing that is abundantly clear is that there is no clear No 1 imo.
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I was referring to more of the cycle, as @Spark points out, than anything to do with the actual WTC itself. I think it gives us a nice way to group periods of series. And I was not making any remark on the quality aspect (sorry if I did, I have been out all weekend and am not re-reading a whole ton of posts responded to) but just that it is the reality of this era. Test series may end up being close or it may end up being one sided spankings depending on how many factors play out, but individual tests are more likely to be blowouts than not compared to previous eras. That was my point.
