So few of the batsmen had played any form of long game cricket in recent months - and did it show! Our system is a bad one and The wretched Hundred has already had a major deleterious effect!
England opted to bat first (?) and the conditions were never easy with a swinging ball and low cloud cover but nobody was surprised to see them skittled for a feeble 183. Only skipper Root managed as much as a half century.
At stumps, India were 162 behind with all ten wickets intact.
Rescuing this match looks nigh on impossible. (Anyone know how to do a Native American rain dance?)
