I have been doing a lot of football related posts recently, so I thought it was time to diversify. The England cricket team have recently been, it is fair to say, humiliating India in the Test series. However, I think this is more down to India having almost all their best players out injured than England being particularly good.
Let's face it, the Ashes saw England take on a really bad Australia team: Ricky Ponting in decline, and the youngsters not really stepping up to the plate. Their win for a combination of the Australians being bad and them playing out of their skin. for once.
The cricket World Cup I feel was a true indicator of England's level: decent, but not very good. Now I appreciate that 50 over cricket is really quite different from Tests, but the principle is still the same. When they came face to face with a full strength Sri Lanka (or even Ireland!) they couldn't cope.
My reasoning for their resounding success in the Tests against the Indians therefore is the number of injuries on the India team. Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, these are really important players for the Indians: without them, they have almost no good bowlers. And in the last test, Virender Sehwag, a key batsman for them, didn't even score a run!
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