India game should be a wake-up call for England
Dominic Cork, writing in the Independent , says England are capable of beating India in their own backyard, and their tendency to play better against the more fancied teams should help them.
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
Dominic Cork, writing in the Independent, says England are capable of beating India in their own backyard, and their tendency to play better against the more fancied teams should help them.
If Ireland, say, were next on the agenda for Strauss's men then the weight of expectation would be on them again. As it is, most people are going to make them long-odds second favourites against India on Sunday and, in many ways, they will have nothing to lose as they try to convince everyone that their efforts during the first half of the Netherlands game were not a true reflection of their ability.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo