Former India captain Rahul Dravid feels it was a mistake to make so many changes to India's backroom staff in the middle of the tour to England, saying they should have waited until they were back home.
India did not put on the best batting display in their one-day tour match against Middlesex at Lord's, but still managed to win the game by 95 runs thanks to their all-round bowling effort.
The squads for the Champions League Twenty20 in India next month have been announced, with the eight foreign players caught between two sides opting to play for their IPL franchises.
New director of cricket Ravi Shastri is eager too see an appropriate response from batsmen Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara, who endured very poor stretches of form during India's three-one Test series loss to England recently.
After watching India get humiliated during their recently concluded five-Test series against England, it is time the Indian batsmen got off their high horses and played some county cricket.
India batsman Cheteshwar Pujara has been granted permission from the BCCI to spend the rest of the India tour in England playing County cricket, though he does not have a club yet.
England's Joe Root has continued his impressive march up the rankings for Test Batsmen, having breaking into the top 10 for the first time in his career.
England and Sri Lanka have improved their positions on the ICC Test Team Championship after winning their series against India and Pakistan, respectively.
It is one of those statements that you take to be a euphemism for negotiating a pay off, but time will tell. Fletcher, one of the most experienced international coaches on the planet, now has a TV commentator as his boss.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India have retained head coach Duncan Fletcher, but named former captain Ravi Shastri as director of cricket ahead of this month's five ODIs and one-off Twenty20 International against England.
India started the five-match series against England with a draw and win, but went on to lose the next three Tests and thus the series, with their batsmen in particular looking dreadful away from home.
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni will not resign, despite slipping to heavy defeat on the third day of the fifth and final Test match against England at The Oval.
Alastair Cook's proverbial bacon has been saved, England's Ashes drubbing has conveniently been resigned to the past, India's inadequacies are several - and more.
England capped their turnaround in fortunes since Lord's with an innings and 244-run win in the fifth Test against India at The Oval, bowling the visitors out for 94 in less than 30 overs in the evening of day three.
India all-rounder Ravi Ashwin feels the pitch at The Oval will get better for batting, so has not ruled out a recover from his team-mates with the bat, even though they fell to 148 all out on day one.
England endured somewhat of a collapse before batsman Joe Root struck an unbeaten half-century, as the total and lead grew to formidable proportions on day two of the fifth and final Test against India at The Oval in London on Saturday.
Fielding coach Trevor Penney defended batsmen Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara, as India slumped to a mere 148 all out on day one of the final Test match against England at The Oval in London.
England looked well on their way to a series win, despite it only being day one of the fifth Test, as they reached stumps at The Oval on 62 without loss, trailing India by just 86 runs.
India captain MS Dhoni says he is more concerned with his team's performance and process than the result ahead of the fifth and final Test against England.
The Indian selectors have to be more firm when it comes to senior players in the national squad underpeforming during a series. As of right now, they seem scared and hesitant to make changes, writes Bimal Mirwani.
This track is traditionally not one for spinners, so England's senior pacemen, and India's returning Ishant Sharma, should have the better time of it with the ball, though batsmen tend to have the upper hand on the flat-ish deck.
And so, we come to the end of what has been an intriguing, controversy-filled, and roller coaster Test series, with the fifth and final match to be played at The Oval in London, and England safe from a series defeat.
This ground is not one you want to be playing on if you're a match behind in a series, and Pakistan's less than stellar pace attack will need all the help they can get on this draw magnet of a deck.
