ArchiveAugust 8, 2014

England will win this series 3-1. Whatever India manage to achieve from their current position, the reality is that in test cricket you don’t recover from being 8-4. The tourists’ heads, inexplicably, began to drop at an early stage of the Southampton test. They will now surely resign themselves to defeat in this match sooner rather than later. And at the Oval they’ll probably barely turn up. Yesterday’s rout is very simple to explain. India’s batting has not fired...