England's strategies in India

So with Australia losing the series and going back home it is time for England to play in India. It will be a huge challenge for England to do well in India.

Anyhow coming back to the series first up are the onedayers and it won't be easy for England as they are up against a formidable opponent who are on a high after winning the test series against Australia.

First up let us look at how can England batsmen play on those flat wickets. To start with Indian wickets are relatively flat and scores of 300 are easily gettable, so England have to consistently get big scores and for this Bell has to get big one's and someone like Prior has to play the role of pinch hitter at the top . England have always been sluggish during the middle overs, so maybe Collingwood can split the duo of Freddie, and KP, if England are say about 100 for 2 after 18 to 20 overs. So England may have to be flexible when it comes to the batting order and has to say that England have the players to be flexible with the likes of KP, Freddie as big hitters and Shah has shown that he is a handy strokemaker too. England also have a strong lower order with players like Broad, Swann, Patel, in the ranks especially Patel is good. He is mainly a batsman who can play shots as well as rotate the strike. It will be a great challenge for the batsmen to come up against the likes of Sharma, Harbie, Zaheer etc.

When it comes to England's bowling Anderson will be the key early on as he does swing the new white ball and he also brings the ball sharply back into the batsmen which can prove to be the ball to dismiss Sehwag as he is generally vulnerable against the swinging ball early on especially the one that comes back, players like Yuvraj, R.Sharma are players who look to play inside out shots so no room can be given to them and bowlers like Freddie, Harmy can be used against them then there is of course Dhoni who I have noticed that he looks to take quick singles early on and once he gets settled he starts smashing bowlers, so it is important to set the right fields to him maybe England should bring the field up to him and make him hit over the top from the start which he is not that comfortable with and one has to say that Dhoni is the key man in the side.

India have a fine one day side with few younger players like R.Sharma, I.sharma, Raina doing well and someone like Dhoni leading the side well so it will be interesting to see how England will play.