Sixty-six days of hell
Looking back at India's winless tour of England, David Frith in DNA writes that for all their lustrous batting line-up, and with their admirers looking nervously at the calendar, India need to find some bright new batsmen, and quickly
Akhila Ranganna
25-Feb-2013
Looking back at India's winless tour of England, David Frith in DNA writes that for all their lustrous batting line-up, and with their admirers looking nervously at the calendar, India need to find some bright new batsmen, and quickly. Nor is the bowling situation any more uplifting.
There were people willing to predict that England would win not only the Test series but the 50-over and Twenty20 contests as well. But I know of nobody — probably there simply wasn’t anybody — who was prepared to predict that India would go home this week without a single victory against England in any of the formats. Shades of 1959, when England won all five Test matches here against DK Gaekwad’s team. There was no such thing as international limited-overs cricket then, so we’ll never know whether the 1959 Indians might have descended to even deeper depths of disappointment half-a-century ago.
Akhila Ranganna is assistant editor (Audio) at ESPNcricinfo