Quote Originally Posted by MacAdder View Post
Agree, it's painfully obvious to me that few are test match players. I doubt they ever practise the forward defensive!
There is a train of thought that you get rid of the short fielders by attacking the bowler and playing your shots. This may work against their own bowlers on English (and Welsh ) pitches but not against this quality of bowler and on Indian pitches.

Entertaining series though, I didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I did.
Credit must go to India, they bowled better and showed the English batsmen how to make BIG scores.
Unfortunately it is the same issue every time.
Solid start, then lose a wicket, then the domino effect.
Not sure why England suffer so much and other major test nations do not crumble regularly.
India had just come off a massive score and probably could have batted on that wicket for 5 whole days, then England show just how you can be skittled out on that beautiful batting wicket.