India, Aug. 7 -- When the final day of the final Test is played to packed stands on a Monday morning even though the match could end in an hour, you know it's the kind of cricket the public can't get enough of.

And purely in terms of excitement, the five-Test series between hosts England and India will go down in history as among the most memorable.

2025 England-India is in the league of 2020-21 Australia-India, 2005 Ashes, 2001 India-Australia. Or even the 1960-61 Australia-West Indies spectacle, at the end of which people thronged the streets of Melbourne to give the visitors, who had lost the series, a wonderful send-off.

Good teams make their sport watchable, grow its audience. This series did plenty of that. At a time when the lon...