The English Cricket Team in India 2012 --Revenge Series for whom ? !
I wanted to post this blog before the start of the Fourth and Final test at Nagpur. Not that the result of that match matters much to my thoughts. To say that the English team came prepared to India would be an understatement. They came well prepared to plan the downfall of the Indian team in its own territory. The preparation by the English to me ,was extraordinary. For their batsmen support they had Graham Gooch who knows the Indian Conditions so well and was instrumental in our defeat at the Prudential cup in 1987 ( he swept Shastri and Maninder Singh of their length ) . On the bowling they had Mustaq Ahmed the wily Pakistani leg spinner. And with Andy Flower at the helm as the Coach , the English had a good support team to plot the Indian downfall. So , what did we do for preparation ? We believed that the English were weak at playing Spin bowling and so in all practice matches before the actual Test series , we had innocuous bowlers bowling to the Englishmen , so that they