Raising the game

The IPL has improved Indian cricket immensely

India’s recent series win over England was special for many reasons: Bouncing back from a crushing defeat in the first Test, Axar Patel enjoying a debut series of his wildest dreams, and the team successfully qualifying for the final of the World Test Championship (WTC). Above all, India was able to vanquish the visitors minus some of its key players in home conditions. While their absence will most probably be just a footnote when the eulogy of this spectacular triumph is written, an Indian team, in any other era, would have most likely struggled without the quality of Ravindra Jadeja,