India, July 11 -- All of a sudden, England aren't keen on entertaining anymore. Looks like they are trying to stay alive in the series. Worse, they are actually trying to play the waiting game against India.

Once again the coin fell in their favour but Ben Stokes wanted to bat, and for no particularly compelling reason really. Bat England did, but minus the swagger that made their batting watchable in the last four years. No six hit the entire day, run rate plummeting to a measly three runs per over, this was the kind of drudgery Brendon McCullum is known to be outrightly dismissive of. Times change though. And England could argue that they weren't chasing after all.

It's a conundrum for those who have been closely following England cri...