VISAKHAPATNAM: In a sense, the real test begins now and the can-do spirit of the Indian team under the cosh after their below-par show in the first Test will have to be rekindled if they are to make a tight fist of the five-match series.
In the four days between the 28-run capitulation in Hyderabad and the second Test beginning at the ACA-VDCA Stadium nestled by the Eastern ghats, much talk centred on a beleaguered Indian team ranged against a visiting side gung-ho by the successful execution of a strategy based on playing attacking cricket.
