India’s record-equalling generation face their defining Test at Lord’s this week | The Spin

Virat Kohli’s team for Edgbaston had eight men over 29 and probably need to win this series and the one in Australia to satisfy the captain’s stated ambition for his No 1-ranked sideIn Phoenix from the Ashes, his book of the 1981 series, the England captain Mike Brearley perfectly captured Ian Botham’s irresistible fusion of ambition, self-belief and talent. “The sky was not his limit,” wrote Brearley. “It was his target.”The description could have been