England vs India 2018: 5 Reasons why India lost the Test series

#4. Only the middle-order scored runs

Kohli, Pujara, and Rahane delivered. The others did not.

The majority of India's runs in the series were scored by the middle order batsmen. In truth, only three batsmen managed to make any meaningful contribution to the team - Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane. And only two of them managed to score a century on the tour.

And while Rahul might have scored a beautiful 149 in the final innings of the fifth Test, it was a little too late to save the series or even the match. In contrast, runs came for England from all positions and this helped them whenever their top order or middle order faltered.

India, on the other hand, looked like a three-man batting unit for the majority of the series. Kohli was at his best throughout the series while Rahane and Pujara also made meaningful contributions whenever the occasion called for it. But other than them, it was hard to find anyone who could be relied upon to bring the team out of a sticky situation.