This was a great test match as there were a lot of ups and downs through out and it was tough to pick the winner. England were just the better team at certain stages of this test match. For me it was Moeen Ali who was the game changer through this test match taking 9 wickets in the match and was the one to get the 2 danger men in Kohli and Rahane in India's second innings. After these to feel India feel apart and it was game over. Congrats to England on winning the series.
As expected, England managed to win this test match. The Indian bowlers have performed well this series, but were let down by the Indian batsmen. It was never going to be easy chasing a moderate total in the fourth innings.The minute India lost early wickets, it all went downhill.
The pitch conditions supported the pace bowlers and that is the reason why they performed so well. But the Indian batsmen (with the exception of Kohli) needs to perform in such conditions.
We cannot blame Pitch for this Indian lost because Moeen Ali take 9 wickets and Ashwin also done good job all blame to Indian Battling line up as they completely fail to produce any good performance now time for Indian board to think about this before Australian tour because they are going to face same conditions if they want to win then surely have some good practice in seam wickets with some good and attacking battling line up not with these dead wickets battling line up
The current Indian team batting line up is not suitable for test matches. They are good to come, hit and go back take rest as soon as possible. But in test cricket on talented crickets can play long hours and build a good partnership. Some people say the pitch was bad for batting on last day but they batted worst than expected. They also need to bring a good batting couch like Dravid to improve test batting line up. Do you guys think this current Indian team can qualify to quarterfinals round in next world cup?
Yes you are right some batsmen are not fit for test cricket and some good batsman are waiting to get chance example Karun Nair he is excellent batsman but Indian team is giving chance to Pant, Rahul, Pandya these players are fit for only limited overs not for test cricket.
And yes last day batting is not easy and 4th innings if the target is more than 230+ runs it will become tough for the batting team. But I think India had a chance to win this test match they missed it bad luck.