Saha, Bhuvaneshwar and Bumrah out already. Cook will probably score 1,000 runs on his own in the series. Difficult to see India winning a game, let alone the series.

The very same. And India played some seamers because they hadn’t played previously in the series, so even the experimentation bit was was right.

Do you mean our “maybe not the one-day series but probably everything else” prediction?

True.

A 90s-esque 10-2-30-1 for Mark Wood today though – this is a strange match!

It lacked the context though. The great thing about the effort in the second one-dayer was the unarguable need to do something completely different.

Maybe there will be some more timely pouncing this time?

“The fans looked from Dhoni(‘s innings) to Misbah(‘s innings), and from Misbah to Dhoni, and from Dhoni to Misbah again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”