INDIA, TIME TO PROVE YOUAREN’T FLATTRACK BULLIES!

Balcony blues: India coach Ravi Shastri and captain Virat Kohli in discussion at Lord’s
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This time was supposed to be different. After years of underachieving away from home, hopes were high that mighty India, ranked No.1 in Tests, could legitimately challenge a wobbly England. Some believed the talented Indian squad deserved the favourites’ tag.
It was not hard to understand the optimism after much goodwill in recent years under the firebrand leadership of Virat Kohli, a fier...