Sport 23-08-2002 India Will Not Budge who: England cricket team what: Failed to learn from lessons of second Test, says coach where: Headingley, LEEDS when: Yesterday snippet: "England coach Duncan Fletcher said his bowlers let the side down after India racked up 236-2 on the first day of the third Test at Headingley," says the BBC this morning. "We had an off day. We didn`t really learn the lessons from (the second test at) Trent Bridge where the conditions were similar," he said. "Six or seven wickets down would have been par for the course today, on a good day it could have been all out." "Truly, they could have been bowled out for 190," agrees Christopher Martin-Jenkins in The Times. "Instead they have taken the first step on the road to levelling the series unless England stiffen their sinews and bat with the same patience and shrewd judgment shown by Rahul Dravid." Dravid "was a marvel of fortitude and silken timing and thoroughly deserved his century, his second in successive Test innings," says Derek Pringle in The Telegraph. "When he reached 30 he became the seventh India batsman to pass 5,000 Test runs." "We had all blithely assumed that India`s regular pronouncements of `we will not budge` had been aimed at cricket`s administrators as they refused to sign their contracts for the Champions Trophy," says The Guardian`s David Hopps, "but we clearly got it wrong. They had actually meant the cricket." [... more]

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