Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
Spot on Major.

Surprised this thread didn’t get a contribution during play. What a let down as England show again that they can’t bat at this level to a consistently good enough standard. I don’t think this India team are that much more talented than previous sides of theirs that were pretty well beaten, but England have gone back a lot - they were about a hundred short with their 290 in the first innings.
The big difference this time with the Indian team is the strength in fast bowling together with its intensity. Bumrah is one of the best bowlers in the world and what he did today with an old ball on a docile pitch was unbelievable. They also now have a mental strength that they wouldn’t have had previously, to come back from the pasting in the last game and in the first innings here showed mental strength that England simply do not have.