Test cricket is rarely as frantic as the first match played at the newly-built largest cricket stadium in the world. In fact, no completed Test match has witnessed fewer deliveries bowled since 1935. It was short but filled with one moment after another which made you audibly gasp. Like a whirlwind holiday romance from your teens, it was completely crazy and over too soon.
It is the second time in as many Tests that England were bundled out by India’s spinners which makes England’s selection for the day-night game all the more questionable. It was pretty clear that this pitch would turn with India clearly looking to have pitches that would play to their strengths and exploit England’s perceived weakness against spin bowling.
But England gambled with their playing XI by going into this match with just one lead spinner. For the first time since last August England played a Test with both James Anderson and Stuart Broad, despite having success this winter by leaving…