Is this test match in the midlands or Mumbai? India presumably could hardly comprehend their incredible good fortune: they are right here, in Britain, with an unpracticed crease assault and batsmen who battle to adapt to skip and development, and the Trent Scaffold grounds man presents a dormant residue bowl. So much for home benefit. We should have given every one of the Indian player’s comfortable couches and stogies as well. They were totally in their usual range of familiarity. As it were, the circumstances at Nottingham mirrored the ridiculous territory of English cricket.

Britain have a four pronged speed assault and no expert spinner

The possibility of five tests in seven weeks, yet we’re playing on featherbeds with as much life in them as an old Egyptian mummy. The discussion in the media is about the new waste frameworks at English test scenes. I’ve heard individuals say that the grounds men ought to be absolved from analysis since all the dampness is sucked away from the strip. I’m not accepting that. Not all contributes resemble this region cricket. Furthermore, even the Trent Extension grounds man himself – in a quickly made message on the Nott’s site – conceded he ought to have left more grass on a superficial level.

These depleting frameworks make things more challenging for ground staff, yet there are still things they can do to guarantee positive, watchable cricket. This surface at Trent Extension is a fiasco for Britain, and a difficulty for cricket overall. Who needs to watch games when the new ball bobs two times before it arrives at the guardian (as happened yesterday on a few events)?At any rate, this should be a match report (of sorts), so I would be wise to examine what little did really occur.

All you really want to know is this wide bowled precisely

Stirs up was bowling a portion of a yard more slow than he did in Australia, Plunkett’s viability was discredited by the dormant pitch, Anderson swung a couple however has had more promising times, and Moeen was fortunate on the off chance that Cook gave him two successive overs. Britain adhered to their undertaking very well in the conditions, yet Vijay looks an extremely coordinated player. On surfaces like this one, any batsman arranged to get his head down ought to make runs. Indeed, even Alastair Cook. So that looks good.

We ought to likewise enjoy a spot of Cook-captaincy-watch. Generally he had a blended day. He set a few somewhat imaginative fields on occasion – the unusual excusals of Pujara and Rahane were certainly credits to himself – however we shouldn’t fail to remember that roughly 80 of India’s 259 runs were spilled in the third man region. That is close to a third. Contemplate that briefly. In the interim, Cook’s treatment of Moeen Ali keeps on confusing basically everybody. Spinners need time to track down a musicality and adjust to the speed of the pitch (so they can figure out the right rates to bowl) however every time Cook tossed Ali the ball it was a symbolic motion and he was unable to hold back to get him off.

Ali’s second over of the day showed guarantee: he was getting respectable float and tracked down the thick edge of Vijay’s bat. The following over he was off, so Expansive could dumbfound a one spell (indeed, only one over) before lunch. I shouted at the television. Truly Ali didn’t bowl especially well yesterday – it’s somewhat hard when there’s no turn, the bob is unprecedented reliable, and Dhoni is at the wrinkle – however Cook’s man-the executives was awful as I would see it. On this pitch, Britain required Ali to bowl a good spell to rest the seamers. Cook’s absence of trust in Moeen was very evident. He likes to assume Joe Root is similarly as great a choice.