Why the 2025 India-England series will stay in our minds

For sheer excitement, the England-India Test series will rank among one of the most memorable

- Sanjjeev K Samyal

When the final day of the final Test is played to packed stands on a Monday morning even though the match could end nan hour, you know it's the kind of cricket the public can’t get enough of.

‘And purely in terms of excitement, the five-Test series between hosts England and India will go down in history as among the most memorable.

2025 England-India is in the league of 2020-21 Australia-India, 2005 Ashes, 2001 India-Australia. Or even the 1960-61 Australia-West Indies spectacle, at the end of which people thronged the streets of Melbourne to give the visitors, who had lost the series, a wonderful sendoff.

Good teams make their sport watchable, grow its audience. This series did plenty of that. At a time when the longer format is struggling to stay relevant in the middle of a T20 revolution, the series was a great advertisement for Test cricket.

Each of the five Tests went into the fifth day, the series squared 2-2. There were no winners or losers, only entertainers.

In recent times, India have been part of some epic contests because of their fearless brand of cricket. The 2001 series win at home is a classic difficult to improve on but who can forget the great fightback in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy of 2020-21 after India lost a majority of first-choice players to injuries?