He’s a very smart bowler, and he plays to the gallery as well which adds to the whole picture,

It’s the amount of spin and drift that he gets, plus his accuracy. That’s what sets him apart,

Bad luck there, Ricky.

I can’t imagine he would have stayed up so late the night before a Test match.

If the England team don’t want to experience another hellish week like the one that lies ahead of them now, with only pride at stake, they had better get used to the idea.

He (Modi) says that his television stations would be in profit after the first year of a four year deal and that ‘side-deals’, as he puts it, were an integral part of the negotiating process.

Inexperience can be used as an excuse or an opportunity. It is as an excuse that it is most often trotted out England’s management … India, throughout, this series, have used is as an opportunity.

My suspicion, in England at least, is that the more charitable view will prevail.

You don’t enjoy it when he gets you out and makes you look a monkey. But if you get runs against him, you enjoy that because you know you’ve certainly earned them.