Ever since India's young brigade has defeated the mighty Australians in Australia, the world cricket has been hailing the Indian Cricket team. Former England captain Michael Vaughan had predicted that India will get white-washed by the Australians, however, the results were totally different. Now, the England Cricket team is all set to visit India for their long tour.
England will be taking on India in a four-Test series beginning February 5, followed by five T20Is and three ODIs. The Virat Kohli-led side would be high on confidence following their recent memorable Test series win over Australia in their own backyard.
Talking to the Sun, England's former spinning legend Graeme Swann hailed India and also gave a piece of advice to the England cricket team. He said, "England always saying ‘well the Ashes are coming up’. B***ocks to that. If you want to be the best team in the world, let’s be the best team all over the planet, not just trying to beat Australia away. We have to move away from looking forward to the Ashes series. It’s a mentality ingrained in this country. Australia are not the best team in the world anymore. They used to be, by miles, and they were the benchmark to strive for."
“They’re not now, but we’re obsessed with this. I think beating India in India is a far higher thing to strive for right now. They’re virtually unbeatable in India since we beat them in 2012. Why isn’t that the whole thing? Why aren’t people saying ‘right, this is a chance to get this team with good players of spin, use their feet, change the whole way we face spin bowling, and then we can beat India’, added Swann.
Swann, who was one of the key performers in England’s series win in India in 2012. Swann said, "We’re not going to beat India unless spinners are taking wickets, and then we’ve got someone batting like we had with Kevin Pietersen. He changed the way England had ever played against spin. He was ultra-aggressive. Let’s face it KP was a brilliant player and he batted unbelievably well there," said Swann.
Praising KP, Swann added, "We haven’t done it since, we haven’t learnt from how Kev batted on that trip and haven’t gone on and used that as the blueprint."