It is hard to work out what to blame for the disastrous third Test defeat against India when so many things went wrong
Whoever reckoned that success has many fathers but failure is an orphan can’t have ever tried to unpick a defeat as big as this one. But then, hardly anyone ever has. The last time England were beaten inside two days of Test cricket was against Australia at Trent Bridge in May 1921. That was 99 years, eight months and 25 days ago, and the nearest England came to any kind of century this week.
Wisden summed that defeat up like this: “Never in the history of Test matches in this country has English cricket been made to look quite so poor.” By the time next year’s Almanack comes out, we may just about have reached some consensus on exactly what went wrong here.
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