England Lose T20 Short Series By 2 - 1 To India.

This is a better overall result than it looks when you consider that the hot summer has produced Indian-style pitches which have favoured the visitors enormously. Chasing 200 on the small ground at Bristol was easy meat for Kohli's boys, yesterday
Broker in the fact that they are substantially better than us, anyway and the Indians thoroughly merited their win.
England were on course for a potentially winning score - but again, the middle order wobbled badly.

The ODI series begins on Thursday. Unless pitch conditions become 'more English' - there is no reason to suppose that the result will be any different. The weather forecasters are not predicting the downpours we need to 'green up' the batting strips.

I am dreading future trips to the sub-continent. Our own spinners are little more than average and our batting abilities against 'mystery spin' are generally lamentable.