great stat this.
24.58 Difference in averages between England's spinners and India's spinners in this match. The slow bowlers for England took 13 wickets at an average of 33.30, compared to nine wickets at 57.88 by India's spinners. England's spinners delivered about 60 balls per wicket whereas India spinners bowled more than 100 balls per wicket. The last time overseas spinners took more wickets with a better average than home spinners in India was at the Wankhede in 2012-13, when England's spinners took 19 wickets at 17.31 and India's took nine wickets at 46.44.
pressure must be mounting on Ashwin and kohli now.
Ashwin had an excuse in 2012 but not sure he can have many excuses for Ali, Rashid and Ansari out bowling him especially when those 3 spinners didn't really bowl well either.
Although to be fair england spin record is only actually better because they took 6 late wicket in the last session, but they did bowl way better than people expected so maybe the deck was hard to bowl spin but take nothing away from the english spinners they bowled better and deserved the wickets.
be interesting to see how the battle between the spinners go in more friendly bowling conditions.
Found an interesting stat as well for all those people going on about the toss in india since the last proper draw in nagpur, excluding the banglore rain draw.
teams winning the toss and winning 6 and teams losing the toss and winning the game 3, so not really a massive advantage either and the main thing being all games won by india and all of those easily as well, so again toss not important.
if you go 4 test earlier and include the england series it goes to 7 and 5 which is pretty close to 50-50.
So really the toss isn't that important in india, it is just an unique phenomenon that most of the toss have been won by the Asian sides that tend to be massive favourites in Asia so they tend to win the games anyway, Think this games was probably the first time after a long time in asia I felt a team needed to win the toss, the rest of the time it didn't really matter but that doesn't mean teams don't want to bat first but it just won't define the game.