London, July 18 -- Sir Neville Cardus, the doyen of cricket scribes, once lamented 'the sun never shines at Old Trafford'. If the BBC forecast is to be believed, it could rain on the first and last days and be mostly overcast in between, with a maximum temperature of 23 degrees. In effect, characteristically English summer conditions, which the touring Indian cricketers haven't encountered in the first three Test matches. Kumar Sri Ranjitsinhji, prince of Nawanagar, now Jamnagar, became the first England batsman to score 100 runs in a session - that, too, on his Test debut - at Old Trafford in 1896. His magical batting evoked a description of 'esoteric legerdemain'. For India, Vijay Merchant and Mushtaq Ali in 1936 nailed hundreds to post 2...