LONDON: James Anderson cannot wait to rejoin a “fearless” England team, unlike any he has known in two decades of international cricket, in this week’s long-delayed India series finale.
Friday’s match in Birmingham comes just four days after England completed a 3-0 rout of Test world champions New Zealand.
Before that series, England had won just one of 17 Tests. That was against India in Leeds last year.
But India fought back to lead 2-1 only for the deciding encounter to be postponed just a couple of hours before it was due to begin at Manchester’s Old Trafford in September, with the tourists withdrawing due to a Covid-19 scare.
The fifth Test is being staged at Edgbaston instead, with England buoyed by…
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