Why IND VS ENG match is everyone's favorite . The war is coming.. On 4 Aug 2021

The first test match is starting from 4 Aug 2021. And no doubt it becomes a war. As we see in the last couple of years, every match between IND VS, ENG is closed combat. Like,

1) The 22 February 1993 was breathtaking, and India vs. England Head to Head stats should be counted for that match with a special mention. The English team set 236 runs on the board due to the fifties of Gooch and Smith. However, India could only manage 227 runs, hence lost by 9 runs.

2) In the 2011 World Cup, you could really see how well is India vs. England rivalry is. India put a score of 338 in 50 overs. However, even England reached the match tying score of 338, making India vs. England Head to Head record as 3-3 in the ICC World Cups.

Moving to the test series..Ex.

Pataudi Trophy (India in England) (2018)

1st Test at Edgbaston, Birmingham on 1-4 August; England won by 31 runs (Eng 287 and 180; Ind 274 and 162)
2nd Test at Lord's, London on 9-12 August; England won by an innings and 159 runs (Ind 107 and 130' 396/7d)
3rd Test at Trent Bridge, Nottingham on 18-22 August; India won by 203 (Ind 329 and 352/7d; Eng 161 and 317)
4th Test at The Rose Bowl, Southampton on 30 August-2 September; England won by 60 runs (Eng 246 and 271; Ind 273 and 184)
5th Test at Kennington Oval, London on 7-11 September; England won by 118 runs (Eng 332 and 423/8d; Ind 292 and 345)

Result England 4, India 1

India v England - Head to Head One Day International Records (Since 1974)

Total Match - 103
India won - 55
England won - 43
Tied - 2
No Result - 3

India v England - Twenty20 International Head to Head Records (Since 2007)

Total Match - 19
India won - 10
England won - 9
First game: 21st Match, Group E in WT20 2007 India won by 18 runs at Kingsmead, Durban, Sept. 19, 2007
Last game: 5th T20I; India won 36 runs at Narendra Modi Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad on March 20, 2021

As Virat Kohli's men gear up to take on England in a five-Test away series in England with a battery of fast bowlers putting them on equal footing with the home side, exactly 50 years ago, an unfancied India, led by Ajit Wadekar, made history by winning the first-ever Test series in England with a spin-heavy attack.

It was leg-spinner Bhagwat Chandrasekhar's 6/38 -- along with left-arm spinner Bishan Bedi's 1/1 and S. Venkataraghavan's 2/44 -- that helped India shoot England out for 101 in the second innings of the third and final Test and upturn the disadvantage of a 71-run deficit into a gettable 173-run target for India in fourth innings.

The first two Test matches of the three-match series, played in July-August 1971, had been drawn.

India, who were on a high after winning the Test series in the West Indies a few months ago, had matched England blow for blow in the first Test at Lord's, London.

The spin trio had helped dismiss England for 304 in the first innings, with Bedi (4/70), Chandrasekhar (3/110), and Venkataraghavan (2/44) sharing nine wickets.

Thanks to Ajit Wadekar's 85, 22-year-old Gundappa Viswanath's 68, and Eknath Solkar's 67, India batted for 165.3 overs and took a nine-run lead. The spin trio shared eight wickets to dismiss England for 191 in the second innings.

India, chasing 183, finished at 145/8, thanks to a half-century from Sunil Gavaskar (53) and his 66-run partnership with Farokh Engineer (35) for the third wicket.

India was lucky to survive in the second Test at Old Trafford in Manchester as there was no play on the fifth and final day, with India staring down the barrel at 65/3 -- facing a 420-run target -- at the end of the fourth day.

While South Africa was banned from international cricket due to apartheid policies, England was considered the best side in the world at the time, at the end of the Manchester Test, 26 Tests without a defeat.

England's top pacer, John Snow, who had missed the second Test, was back and sent jitters in the Indian camp by first terrorizing Sunil Gavaskar with a bouncer and then bowling him in the first innings of the third Test.

Dilip Sardesai (54) and captain Ajit Wadekar (48) added 93 for the third wicket, while Eknath Solkar (44) and Farokh Engineer (59) added 97 for the sixth wicket. But India still fell 71 runs short of England's first innings score of 355.

It was then Venkat ran through England and helped set a 173-run target for India.

After Gavaskar was scalped by Snow again, Wadekar (45), Sardesai (40), Viswanath (33), and Engineer (28 not out) saw India through to the tricky total on the final day.

India needed 97 on the last day and had eight wickets in hand. They lost Wadekar early without the addition of any run. Still, the others rose to the occasion, overcoming relentless 74 overs from off-spinner Ray Illingworth and left-arm spinner Derek Underwood.

The victory ended England's 26-Test unbeaten streak and was India's first series win in England, where they had traveled on six previous occasions.

Venkataraghavan (13), Chandrasekhar (13), and Bedi (11) were the top wicket-takers on either side, sharing 37 of the 53 English wickets to fall in the three Tests.

Although Wadekar's India was whitewashed 0-3 three years later in the 1974 series, quite brutally, the subsequent tours of England always saw India put up a fight. They lost the 1979 and 1982 series by just 0-1 margins and went on to win the 1986 series 2-0 under Kapil Dev's captaincy.

India lost 0-1 in 1990 and 1996 and drew the 2002 series 1-1 before winning the 2007 series 1-0.

The last three series have been nightmares. India has won only two out of the 14 Test matches, and Indian fans will hope that Kohli's men can draw some inspiration from the summer of 1971, half a century ago.

We know cricket is born in England. And, of course, they know it very well. But don't underestimate Indians. So I don't know which team will win this series, but one thing is sure that every match is like a war...