India vs England 2016: 5 reasons why India will get over the English hurdle

#5 Ashwin and Jadeja on a roll

Ashwin has been turning heads as well as batsmen around with his bowling

In the last two years, Ashwin and Jadeja have played 7 Tests in India in which they have picked 58 and 37 wickets respectively at averages of 14.22 and 15.83. Ashwin has played 18 Tests overall in the last couple of years picking up a whopping 113 wickets. Ashwin is amongst all-time greats already, in terms of his speed reaching 200 Test wickets, or the consistency of his 5-wicket hauls.

In the last two years, Mishra has played 7 Tests picking 28 wickets at 20.64, proving to be the ideal foil to Ashwin and Jadeja, if needed. In 3 Tests against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka, Ashwin and Mishra picked 21 and 15 wickets respectively at 18.09 and 23.60. In the recently concluded Test series against New Zealand at home, Ashwin and Jadeja picked up 27 and 14 wickets respectively at 17.77 and 24.07 showing their red-hot form.

The pair will be a handful for the inexperienced English batsmen to deal with, especially given that they seemed suspect against consistent spin bowling, something which the former English team to tour India was decent at!