A complete route of the world champion Indian team is a very likely outcome of the current series according to me. The squad is further depleted with the departure of Zaheer Khan and Yuvraj Singh. Sehwag is just back and will take some time to adjust and there is no second spinner who can make an impression here. So the chances of taking twenty English wickets are very remote. The batters, barring Dravid, have not shown any strength of character to bat out the English attack. SO it is all going to be downhill from here as far as I can see.
When I was a child and had just started following cricket, I always used to look at the most optimistic scenario and always believed that India would win the test. So after having heard the top order collapse, I would imagine the likes of Kirmani, Ghavri and Venkat to score runs by the bucket and get us to some respectable total. Then I would want our spinners to bowl out the opposition under 100 and get us a decent enough lead. So naïve. I guess that is an ability one loses as we mature and become more pragmatic. We need some folks from this Indian team believing in miracles and thinking like a kid to dream of winning from hopeless positions. Unless that happens, we are well and truly done in this series.
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