"Quality Not As Good": Batting Great Rates This Series Over India vs England 2025 Tests
Down 1-2 after the Lord's Test, India showed incredible resilience to fight back and level the Anderson-Tendulkar series 2-2. On the back of incredible bowling by Mohammed Siraj, who ended the series as the highest wicket-taker with 23 scalps in five Tests, with figures of 4-86 and 5-125 across both innings of the fifth and final Test at The Oval, and that too in the absence of Jasprit Bumrah who sat out of the final game citing workload management.
Following India's stunning win in the series-decider, many fans labelled the series the 'best' in recent memory. Reacting to the same, former captain Nasser Hussain asked his ex-teammate Michael Atherton if it was the best series since the 2005 Ashes, or even better.
Atherton, however, was of the opinion that the India-England series came close to Ashes '05, which according to him is the best series of all time.
"I don't think the quality was as good as '05. I don't think I've seen a better series than the '05 Ashes. It was a great team on the decline and the emerging team, absolutely great players at the top of their game. But it was probably the best series since '05," said Atherton.
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