As poor as England have played in the opening two Tests, there's also a huge amount of credit got to be given to India. And England have only won one series in India in over 30 years back in 2013.
It's not an easy place to go and win, maybe as difficult as anywhere in international cricket. And for years we've tried digging in, hoping to put away the bad ball only to find that we're going nowhere with the run rate and end up getting one with our batsman's name on it. At least this way we're trying to take the game to them like we did with Pakistan.
I get people saying that there's a time for digging in and I'm in complete agreement with that. But that's not gonna happen too often under the current structure.
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