The latest England one day series has crept up on us a bit with all the fuss surrounding the recent Stanford Twenty20 and despite being in India only a few days England have already played two warm up games. The first they won quite convincingly, the second they lost in a similar fashion. That doesn’t surprise me at all or anyone who reads my ramblings here, England are consistently inconsistent!

The 7 one dayers are going to be really tough against a very good Indian side who are also riding high on confidence having just beaten the Aussies 2-0 in a test series. I don’t expect us to win the series, but a couple of wins and some good showings would probably be an achievable target.

Starting at 3.30am on Friday morning it isn’t exactly a recipe to high live viewing figures, and I won’t be that bothered about missing a fair bit of the live action – highlights is good enough when there are so many ODI’s. Its a shame that there are only 2 test matches, but the Indian way at the moment is getting people and advertising in, and test matches just do that for the moment.

So I think we’ll lose the series, yes. Maybe that is defeatist of me or maybe its realistic. I have no real expectations so the England players will do well to let me down (but I bet they find a way of doing it!).