After having lost against Saffers by 1-2, this has got worse as loss margin is 1-4 in this series. Well done to England for the win.Not at all surprised that we did not win any of those two series. However, i thought the scoreline would be better in England than it was in SA considering England have some below par averaging batsmen in their batting lineup.
Test 1 - England won by 31 runs
Test 2 - England won by an innings and 159 runs
Test 3 - India won by 230 runs
Test 4- England won by 60 runs
Test 5 - England won by 118 runs
Woulda,coulda,shoulda don't win test matches. There has been lot of these woulda,coulda,shoulda by Virat and Shastri. Surely they [Virat & Ravi] have the skill of portraying the horrible 1-4 thrashing into a blockbuster Bollywood movie. Actually Virat gave a PC recently suggesting the series scoreline does not describes the real picture. I know no captain is going to say that we played bad brand of cricket etc etc atleast in front of media so that team does not gets demoralized. But still whom are these guys fooling? The scoreline doesn't matters? In international level what matters is performance on field, especially when representing a country whose number one sport is cricket and probably has the best domestic setup as well as best infrastructure as well as support staff apart from coaches. Yet, i won't be surprised if both of them , right now must be saying this was a well competed test series. 1-4 has not happened at all.It's we who have won the series...in dreams. Who cares what scoreline says. Won't be surprised if think tank puts their heads down in sand like Ostrich.All respect to England for being a major team and playing at home, but even we are ranked No. 1 (ok,i know the home series took us to No.1), we are not supposed to end up with scorelines that Bangladesh and other teams will be proud of when touring England. India wins 1 test match out of lengthy 5 test series. How good does that looks. Pathetic.
Next is two home tests against West Windies. Eagerly awaiting for the home series. Very confident of winning that. So brighter things are very near - in fact just three weeks away.
Test FL's - 8 , ODI and Tests Combo FL's - 1, ODI World Cup - 1, ODI FL's - 7, ODI and T20i combo FL's - 1 ,
T20 Franchisee FL's - 7, T20i Cup FL's- 1, T20 FL's- 5 , 50 Overs Domestic FL's - 1, 40 Overs Domestic FL's- 1