ECB: Act fast if you want tickets to see England against India

India has been here before: overwhelmed at the start, its preparations examined, its quality questioned, its out-cricket derided.

At this stage, everything is fair game. The way its cricketers enter the ground � not with the practised collective menace of Australia, but in shambolic trickles � is held up as proof of a lack of intensity. Suddenly, the batsmen are �much vaunted�, air quotes for