With the Indian test team enjoying the status of the being the top-ranked test team, its on a visit to England to challenge the arguably most complete test team after the hammering the Australians received in the last Ashes series on their home-ground. The Indian team had a half-baked preparation on the placid West-Indian wickets just prior to the current series. The West-Indies series saw many of the top players missing from the ranks, cooling their heels after a hectic schedule involving the World-Cup and the IPL matches.
The team failed to give a good account of themselves in the West-Indies and have found themselves completely out-of-sorts in the current England trip - already trailing 2-0 to the Englishmen and burdened with injuries to top players like Sehwag, Zaheer, Gambhir and also plagued by fatigue or lack of battle readiness. They have been really found wanting against the rampaging Englishmen who have prevented the Indian batting line up from conjuring even a single 300+ total in 4 innings. Worse still, they have had a real bad outing against the Northants in the run-up to the 3rd Test and also go for the next rubber with the knowledge that Zaheer is out of the series permanently with injury. Also added to the list of injuries is Harbhajan and Yuvraj. Harbhajan though must be thanking his stars for the injury after having a poor performance in the last 2 series.
Everyone is hoping for a turn-around from this Indian side but the current form of the players does not raise too much hope.
"....The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind...."
The team failed to give a good account of themselves in the West-Indies and have found themselves completely out-of-sorts in the current England trip - already trailing 2-0 to the Englishmen and burdened with injuries to top players like Sehwag, Zaheer, Gambhir and also plagued by fatigue or lack of battle readiness. They have been really found wanting against the rampaging Englishmen who have prevented the Indian batting line up from conjuring even a single 300+ total in 4 innings. Worse still, they have had a real bad outing against the Northants in the run-up to the 3rd Test and also go for the next rubber with the knowledge that Zaheer is out of the series permanently with injury. Also added to the list of injuries is Harbhajan and Yuvraj. Harbhajan though must be thanking his stars for the injury after having a poor performance in the last 2 series.
Everyone is hoping for a turn-around from this Indian side but the current form of the players does not raise too much hope.
"....The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind...."
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