5 issues that India need to sort out to defeat England

3. Spinners

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India have always had the luxury of quality spinners. The problem now is that these spinners have not performed overseas. India do have Ashwin and Jadeja who are placed high on the ICC Test rankings, but they have an abysmal record overseas. Both of them have a strike rate of close to 100 in overseas conditions (excluding the Sub Continent and West Indies).

With both having similar records, picking either of them didn't make much difference. This was the reason that Virat threw in a surprise in his first match by selecting Karn Sharma ahead of both of them.

Though Ashwin did show improvement in his last overseas tour of South Africa where he had a decent strike rate of 65, we should not rule out Kuldeep either who can bowl wrist spin with consistency. Also, with India expected to go in with Pandya instead of a 6th batsman, the team management will also have to give an edge to the bowler who can bat better than the other two.