India, Jan. 28 -- Veteran India all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin shared his assessment of England's batting in the ongoing T20I series and pointed out the mistakes that led to their losses in the first two T20Is. The English team failed to read the Indian pitches as their batters failed to live up to expectations, with only Jos Buttler showing some fightback in the middle. The openers have faltered miserably, and so did their middle-order power hitters, Harry Brook and Liam Livingstone.

Ashwin, who has been following the series closely, compared England's batting to driving in Bengaluru traffic.

"England has played incomplete cricket. They made a series of mistakes. When you play in India, you can't play in one tempo. If you drive in Ben...