27 February

It’s now clear that England’s new ‘Bazball’ cricket is just a way to get flogged in the all the same old ways, while declaring those floggings a win. Straight out of the Trump playbook. England lost as badly on this tour of India as they did on the last, which triggered the end of Root’s captaincy. And there’s still a Test to go, so they can do even worse than last time yet.