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Richard Lord
Jul 9, 2014 10:07 am IST England’s Ben Stokes in the nets at Trent Bridge.

When a group of national cricket boards grab so much of the global game’s power and money that they become known as the Big Three, it puts a certain amount of pressure on the teams of those nations to live up to that billing on the pitch. So far, however, a few months after the move that put India, England and Australia incontrovertibly in charge of the sport’s purse strings and everything else that goes with them, two of those three nations face an uphill task to prove that they’re good enough in the game’s premier format to be considered part of any sort of elite.

All of which adds a certain piquancy to what will already be a headline-grabbing, attention-diverting series, the five-Test clash between England and India that begins in Nottingham on Wednesday. The visitors are ranked fourth in the world, the hosts fifth, both recently overtaken by Pakistan; with Sri Lanka and New Zealand snapping at their heels; a few more bad results and either of these teams could find itself seventh, particularly England.

And bad results are what England has specialized in recently—an Ashes whitewash followed by an equally calamitous home series defeat to Sri Lanka. Not that India’s away form is that much better: While the team has won its past six home Tests, it hasn’t won an overseas Test in three years, losing 10 and drawing two. Most recently it suffered 1-0 away defeats to New Zealand and South Africa, and was whitewashed 4-0 the previous time it played in England, in 2011.

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