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< 1 minute read“Cook in particular had lived dangerously in his 11-ball stay,” reports Cricinfo. You wonder how he found the time. At least he went out in style, his off stump halved by Mohammad Shami. Ben Duckett was also bowled. “Here are my stumps,” he seemed to say. “Snap one if you

2 minute readWe were going to start this piece: “Not to be defeatist, but…” We then realised that this would be entirely misleading. Defeatism is precisely what we are about to deliver. This doesn’t mean being a naysayer. It’s just our honest ‘on the balance of probabilities’ assessment of India and England

< 1 minute readIf you spend some time travelling round India, you are highly likely to see a fairly generic brown dog roaming around. Today, in the second Test between India and England, one such dog precipitated the tea break when attendants failed to halt its pitch invasion. Here at King Cricket, we

< 1 minute readPeople often talk of Test cricket as being a battle. A match can at times be like two medieval knights hacking away at each other, inflicting a whole series of ghastly wounds until one or the other finally succumbs. It doesn’t always work like that in India. Rather than a

< 1 minute readIn another era, England could have embarked on this Test with no leg-spinner and little comprehension of reverse swing. Working their way through the Indian batting line-up would have been like trying to saw through a tree trunk with a butter knife. After days of toil, they’d have succeeded only