Congrats to the England team and all England fans here.
@chris.hinton the bantz were fun but please dont overdo it and ruin the atmosphere now that you have won.
The Indian players came in undercooked and with literally no multiday format practice and it showed. They were very obviously worse than they were in the first innings with both bat and ball. But that is what the BCCI deserves for not moving the IPL back a couple of weeks and allowing this series to finish off last year. I know we were ordinary with both bat and ball across 3 overseas tests now in the 3rd and 4th innings and its scary that is how Dravid's coaching era has begun. People forget how bad a captain he was for RCB and even RR and how so many of his ideas were so out of the blue sometimes. Hopefully he can figure out the best way to get this side to regroup again.
England, and especially Bairstow, played such a high quality game though. Its stupid to call it as a game India lost when I feel even now it is very much a game, England and especially Bairstow won. Stokes' bowling and captaincy have been good and Root has continued to be Root but really, this win is all down to Bairstow. No Bazball or Rootometer or Stokespeare is gonna change that. Glad to see him do so well as he is obviously very passionate about playing for England especially in this format.
I said it after the last NZ test that us Indian fans will join in the doom and gloom with NZ and we will.
The fact that we have drawn the series and retained the trophy is a nice thing to hold onto though. Virat has to find some form in the LO legs soon. Our next tests are apparently in November against Bangladesh and then the big BG series. Hopefully we find some answers before that wtih respect to Siraj, Shardul, Gill, Virat, Vihari and Shreyas.
