Familiar themes recur as India prepare to take on England in England: opening conundrums, lack of pace, general travel-sickness and pondering over the form of Sachin Tendulkar. On the shoulders of a familiar man, writes Scyld Berry in The Sunday Telegraph, lie their hopes for away success. Welcome Rahul Dravid.
The man who has turned the tide has been Rahul Dravid, an urbane south Indian who has played for Kent and Scotland and become a cricketer of the world as well as India's captain. Modest, too, he is not one to behave like a film star. Last Friday in Belfast I asked him about India's away record and his reply was perfectly correct in what he said, but even more remarkable in what was unsaid.
