A lot has been told and heard about the upcoming series between India and England where the whole country boasts to give a whitewash to England in the same way as England gave to India in the last summer on the Indian tour of England,2011.There is no doubt that the Indians will always be the favourites in the whole series under the home conditions but do you think that the team has got enough to give a whitewash to the well settled England team who is at present holding the second rank in the ICC rankings of test cricket.

Even before the Englishmen came to India,Raina has already declared that it is pay back time for England.Although it is sad that Raina himself could not make to the Indian squad for the first two tests but his words still hold its place.India,a country where Cricket is a religion and Tendulkar is its god,went after the words of raina and from then, every ad and everythng related to the test series has been focusing on the punishment that the Englishmen are going to face in return of the whitewash given to India.

Now,coming to the stats,England is playing its third warm up match and the way they have played is really not indicating something like a whitewash.Its well known that they are playing against the domestic teams,not with the Indian team but still they have had an upper hand in every warm up match which is very contrast to the warm up match that India had played against Somerset and Northamptonshire  back in England in 2011.the only player who gave an answer to the English bowlers in that series is already retired.And as far as my logics matter,a team having an upper match in every warm up match must be having an ability to atleast draw the matches and not suffer a whitewash.

Looking at the figures,their top three batsmmen have already been in form in the warm up matches.The captain,Alastair Cook has 216 runs in the two innings he has played.Trott has been decent with 160 in his four innings while Peiterson scored a century in his last inning.Samit Patel,their part time all rounder who has been mostly good against the Indian team has been performing excellent in the warm up matches scoring 231 runs in three innings with 7 wickets in his bag.Anderson and Bresnan has also been good witht the ball taking some wickets in every innings.

So,the main point is that when India was playing in England in 2011,it seemed that they have been sent to some alien condition pitches where facing every ball seemed like a threat to them while Engand has been performing decently in the warm up matches and they seem to be well prepared for the series opener from 15th of this month.

These were the facts and knowledge provided on the current state of the England team who are gonna play India from 15th of November under Indian conditions.Now,the decision whethet they will be given a whitewash or will they back fire on India or will they just try to defend the matches lies in your hands.So,what do you think?????

~by deepak kumar