Somesh Agarwal

With Gujarat Titans and India, Gill has shown a strong reluctance to use spin. His approach will be very interesting when he captains in the home season.

This Sundar spell is feeling quite bittersweet

That they consider Jadeja as their main spinner and not Sundar in this XI is the biggest question mark on their plans

Feels like the enormity of this has not sunk in. Maybe because Pant was not required to limp into the field. Maybe because there were no 2 wkts in an over. Maybe because it did not come down to Siraj negotiating the final over. Because it was done with such ease in the end.

To be fair, England have paid the price of opting for exactly what India have been criticised for: choosing batting depth over wicket-taking bowlers

Jadeja now has more SENA 100s than Rohit and more Test runs in England than Kohli. This is not a dig, just a reflection on the underrated brilliance of one of India's greatest ever.

After a heartbreak at Lords no one deserves this ovation more than Jadeja

To think this will reach a scenario where England will offer a draw and India will not take it

If there ever is a scenario to put personal milestones over everything else it is this

Hope the bravery shown on the field reflects in the decisions taken off it from here on

Biggest threat for India in this series: 1) Stokes 2) 10 mins to session break

Not for the first time in the series it has felt like India are losing not to the team called England but the player called Stokes

Must be a tense atmosphere in a family household where the son wants to be in business with the father’s arch-enemy

Almost forgot that sometime ago there was a decision taken that it will be wise for Sai Sudarshan to skip the warmup games

It’s a matter of time that Root overtakes Tendulkar. It is a good thing. That means Test cricket’s health has been decent in the last decade. What should now be ensured is that someone gets an opportunity to go past Root someday. Else all of this was for nothing.

It's telling how India included so many multi-skilled players but has come out looking worse than the sum of its parts

With Jadeja, we are expecting more than what we must with the bat and more than what he can with the ball

While fearing that this might turn out the 2018 way, we forgot that this could go the 2014 way too

Indian captain not using resources well becomes more prominent with Bumrah in the XI because the captain wants him to bowl to the new batter whenever a wicket falls, even at the cost of disrupting an ongoing good spell

Basically, Kallis had Root’s runs and Stokes’ wickets