England's Mental Frailties, Weak Skill-Sets Exposed By Indian Spinners

India's spin bowlers exposed England batsmen's frailties on pitches that aid turn more than usual. England's mental fragility as well as their lack of skills were laid bare as slow bowlers

"I wanted them to make mistakes and making things tough for them to score runs," said Patel after the match.

"My strengths are bowling a wicket-to-wicket line. And the idea was not to give batsmen room. In today's day and age, batsmen have a mindset of sweeping or playing over the top after a few maiden overs, so that's (frustrate them by stopping the flow of runs) what I try to do," he added.

Ashwin, by trying to turn the ball initially in England's second innings, struggled and gave away a few loose balls. But he got into the rhythm and bowled a tight line without trying to do anything extra just like Patel.

Ben Stokes, who was the only one among the top-order batsmen looking to dominate, fell into the same trap as he tried to play for the spin but the delivery that dismissed him went straight and trapped him leg before.

Captain Root too has struggled after his double in the first game.

"It was very difficult to start your innings. What you look at was the guys who got starts they could've made it count - myself the prime culprit there. Every run does really count and you have to take it and put yourself in a position of strength," said Root after the match while lamenting his batsmen's failures.

The visitors' batting revolves completely on Root. Even in the two Tests in Sri Lanka and in the first Test in Chennai, it were his big scores that carried England to huge total. But with India bowlers frustrating him, things look gloomy for the entire England batting side.