India’s faced with the Edgbaston barrier and other questions

The visitors, facing selection decisions, have lost 7 of their 8 Tests at this Birmingham venue for the second Test starting on July 2

London: Edgbaston in Birmingham, the car-manufacturing hub in England’s west Midlands, is where India will play the second match of the five Test series. In their eight appearances at this venue since 1967, India have lost seven times – amounting to a veritable crematorium of Indian cricket. The only occasion when they held a whip hand – in 1986 – the temperamental English weather denied them victory.

India speahead Jasprit Bumrah could be rested for the second Test between India and England starting at Edgbaston on July 2 (AP)

Whether by design or not, the first Test at Headingley and the upcoming