India - England, ICC Champions trophy

India scored an emphatic win over England in their first match of the champions trophy. I watched only the first 30 overs of the match and had enough of it. India bowled well against a mediocre English team. England looks like a team that drew up all their energy and concentrated it on last year's Ashes. Now that they have won it, they have no energy or motivation left. Coming back to the match, I felt that this pitch was quite mediocre and India should be reprimanded for providing a pitch like this for such a high profile tournament. I thought Irfan Pathan bowled a bit wide early on the English didnt really have the batsmen to take advantage. All in all a good warm up match for the Indians where everybody has settled in.

The next match against WI should be an easy one for the Indians. The WI who until now had a psychological advantage over India by virtue of their series victory against us, would have now lost all confidence after their disastrous match against Sri Lanka. I think India will beat them easily.