Runs Or Ruins, Test Begins

With India’s untested middle-order, visitors England will fancy their chances in third Test

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LET'S be honest. Before the Hyderabad Test, many doubted whether England would have any success in India. And there were merits to the argument.

India had lost only two home Tests in the past decade. They were and are a monster at home in Test cricket. If anyone had bet that India would lose the first Test after taking a 190run lead, you'd have laughed them off and rightly so.

Yet, they did and two Tests on, both teams are at Rajkot and the series reads 1-1. And for the first time in 12 years, a visiting team has a chance to do something no one else could.

Win two matches against India in a home Test series. And what more, they perhaps have the best venue to do it. The Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, which got a new name after the former cricket administrator Niranjan Shah on Thursday.