That’s what they were saying before the beginning of the match. As if not enough have been fought between the Indians and the English. Come on! It was a joke.
But what is not a joke is the way MS Dhoni and Kedar Jadhav slugged to the end. As rightly said by the commentators, the intent was lacking. It was like accepting the defeat when it was evitable. It was like surrendering because fighting was not easy. Let’s say, we gave up.
When you have double digit asking rate, you should be really going hard at every ball. That was not seen.
Credit should be given to the way English bowlers operated. Cross seam deliveries and the cutters gave nothing to the numero uno team. For the most part of his innings, Rohit found it hard to time correctly. Kohli was able to, but the unusually high number of play and misses showed the pitch had something in it. Hardik Pandya, though was playing fluently, was trapped with brilliant field positioning by Eoin Morgan.
Of course, the pitch helped. It became two paced to an extent. But what would the game for England was the brilliant variations and pace off bowling.
For Team India, being defeated is one aspect but having disgracefully accepted the loss without a fight is a more horrifying one.
