TRISTAN LAVALETTE

Ravindra Jadeja

History maker: Alastair Cook was in impregnable form in 2011-12 but now this current England crop will have to deal with spin master Ravindra Jadeja,
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The numbers are simply jaw-dropping. In the past three decades, India have lost just three Test series at home. Only Hansie Cronje’s South Africa in 2000, Australia’s all-time great team circa 2004 and England in 2012 have cracked cricket’s hardest challenge in that period.
England’s famous 2-1 victory ended a 27-year drought in India. It was the highpoint ...