The Spin | England’s Test series with India lacks anyone to write home about it

The absence of the tourists’ newspaper press pack because of Covid rules means we will miss their shared insightOn Wednesday, the first Test against India starts at Trent Bridge, with barely an ahem; let alone a ta-da. It has been a peculiarly modest buildup to a five-Test series, to what Virat Kohli calls “the absolute pinnacle of the game”. This is no reflection on India, but on a sport-soaked summer, the Euros wallchart barely pulled from the fridge before the Olympic supple