Cricket: Kohli hammers England

The end was “swift” and brutal, said Vic Marks in The Guardian. On the final morning of the fourth Test, in Mumbai, India needed less than half an hour to take England’s last four wickets. They thrashed the visitors by an innings and 36 runs to seal a 3-0 series victory, with the fifth Test still to be played.

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It was England’s seventh Test loss of the year, said Mike Atherton in The Times – their “worst run” since 1993. And it was Alastair Cook’s 21st defeat at the helm, the joint worst total for an England captain. It had all seemed to be going so well in the first innings, when the visitors were 230 for two, before they were bowled out for 400. To lose so badly from that position “takes some doing”. But this is a team in a “death spiral”: they are “bruised, battered” and have “too many players out of form”.