3 Issues which cost India against England at Edgbaston

#2 Poor Slip Catching:

Catches win matches

Another important skill that the Indian team needs to focus on when touring countries like England is the slip catching.

As the old saying goes--Catches win matches!

In countries such as England where the wickets are characterized by impressive pace and bounce, the ball can travel at a blazing fast pace to the slip fielders; owing to which the fielders need to be more attentive and focused than they'd be on a relatively slow, spinning track. A dropped catch can cost the team the entire match.

It's no secret that not a single team likes to lose a match, especially due to one particular mistake which snowballs and eventually turns out to be the blunder which cost them said match.

Generally, the current Indian team is quite good, as far as catching and fielding as a whole are concerned. However, that wasn't the case in the first test at Edgbaston.

Catches were dropped at the slip positions by the Indian fielders who'd usually be on point most of the time. Such critical errors are generally not expected from the number-one side in the world, however, as the belief goes--there are some days when everything appears to go wrong for the team.

Unfortunately, such was India's case in the first test against England.