C'mon England Lets Win ( great series )

[the other bob wilson]

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.

[Aubrey Boyce]

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.

[the other bob wilson]

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.

Most of the Indian quicker bowlers have toured here before though. You can’t ignore what India did in Australia in the winter, so I accept they are slightly better than recent Indian touring sides, but England have declined more than India have improved in my view. With hindsight, I would say having four seamers bowling between 80 and 85 mph may not have been a problem at Headingly, but England needed more pace in their attack at the Oval - Wood might have got the ball to reverse swing a bit.