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England vs. India : A clash of the titans

Already during 2011, cricket has dished out a World Cup and an IPL. It’s amazing that the game excites to generate contests which leave even the neutral audience on the edge. It expresses a lot about who is still the grand daddy of them all as the hype surrounding the mouth watering prospect of the world’s No 1 Test team defending its crown against the outfit that harbours genuine and realistic hopes of dethroning the suzerain is staggering. Test cricket is back to where it belongs and the charm and the excitement it unravels forces the other pretenders to shy away in humiliation.

For any team which aspires to be at the apex, the first criteria has to be avoiding the visitors to share the spotlight. South Africa of late has failed to dodge the bullet of Australia 2-1 and allowed India and England to escape with 1-1 draws. They have been on a different plane during their travels, but it deadens the legitimacy of their claim, since they have been debonair hosts.

England, ironically the deluxe beneficiary of the Proteas’s lack of assurance or CSA’s bleak programmes of which don’t preserve the home grown harvest to enjoy the rainbow nations’ daintiness, meanwhile has extinguished Australia in two consecutive Ashes, came unscathed from Africa and is enjoying a lengthy unbeaten run at home, as silky as the free spending power of Russian oil billionaires.

India is reaping the concession of MS Dhoni’s captaincy and its refusal to crashland in a Test series so far. Beating India in India is still the toughest assignment in Test cricket’s to do lists and the booming tours has risen their stock to the point where they can touted of their Everest. Recently, India’s relevance as the NO1 Test team has been as debatable as the existence of extra-terrestrial life, but most often, critics are being spoiled by the ‘80s West Indians or the early 2000s Australians.

In the modern era, there isn’t any team with pedigrees as blissful as that - which is a good thing for the sake of Test cricket - so subjectivity is the stick. India has subjectively been consistent in their performances, so are deserving of the top spot. With the intended propensity of England, this series can be defined as a definitive marker in the quest.

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