9 Reasons why India lost the Test series

#6 Not capitalising on key moments

England v India: Specsavers 1st Test - Day Four

There were a number of moments in this Test series where India were fairly on top and in a dominant position. But they've failed to capitalise on those key moments where they could've easily batted or bowled England out of the game.

At Edgbaston, Southampton and even in this last Test match they let England come back into the game on a number of occasions.

England, on the other hand, won all those key moments of these matches.

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#7 Top order failures

England v India: Specsavers 2nd Test - Day Four

The openers apart from the third Test match have failed to give good starts. Often in this series, we've seen 2-3 wickets falling with the team score being less than 20.

You can't expect a comeback everytime from the middle order.

Nottingham was a good example where both Shikhar Dhawan and KL Rahul gave India a good start and India went on to win the match.

But more often than not the middle order has been exposed to the new moving ball and have been left to do a lot of work.