Ok, so maybe it wasn’t quite as clear cut as that but there is no doubt that the reason for losing the second test at Trent Bridge was the awful first innings after being put into bat. Yes, the ball was swinging all over the place, but to only score 198 was always going to put the team under immense pressure. And then when India came out and showed us how to bat the writing was on the wall by the end of the second day.

Losing the last 7 wickets in the second innings for not many runs didn’t help either, but we were thoroughly outplayed in this test and we now need to win the final test at the oval next week to ensure that Vaughan doesn’t lose his first home test series as captain.

We also had “jelly bean gate” which seemed a lot of fuss over nothing, with Khan and KP getting a bit tasty. We like a bit of fight in a game, especially when the actual cricket looks one-sided! I’m not quite sure where we can go with our team, they just need to be sent out there and hope they play like they did in the first test. They all want to win, every player in every walk of the game always does. But those that show the most fight are the winners, and that wasn’t us in this test.