When India plays a Test series at home, the outcome is akin to that of an open-and-shut case. So much so that in little over a decade, the nation had won against every visiting team, the count being 16 on the trot until the end of 2023.
But against a near full-strength England that hadn’t lost a series since June 2022 home or away (four wins and two draws), there were a few jitters.
