Hours earlier, some poor bloke from Edinburgh came up to me at the ground and asked me for a photograph. It is worth remembering India have been wary about the positioning of this Test close to the IPLYou will recall that they tried to get it moved. And so when a team pull out of a match like this, it reaches an inevitable but sad conclusion for Test ticket-holders. I don’t blame the players because I experienced similar environments last summer. England were missing three match-winners in Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer and Stuart Broad, and the pitch looked like it would turn.

Source: The Nation September 10, 2021 21:00 UTC