Billed as a Revenge Series the India-England 4-Match Cricket Test Series played in India started on the right note at least for an Indian television news channel who while breaking the news hoarsely cried that Ahmedabad Test becomes Revenge No.1 for Team India. The 'patriotic' reason being that England whitewashed India most humiliatingly in the 4-Match Cricket Test Series played in England in 2011. The so-called revenge drama basically gets reduced to the battle of the extremes between spin and pace-India having the spin quality providing turners at home and England having pace providing green tops at home. In fact, each team does not mind demanding 'conditioned' pitches at home whenever the opponent visits there. As the battle goes on no single team ever tries mastering both of the arts.
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Each team is right in their battle, essentially. England knows India's weakness against seam and swing, therefore demolishes them on green-top pitches. India knows England's weakness against spin bowling, and therefore plans revenge on slow and cracking pitches. Right from the sixties when India prided in having four deadly and specialized spinners this has been the Test scenario. No effort has been made by any cricket board in providing uniform sporting pitches or making their respective players to learn to bowl both pace and spin well and learn to play both pace and spin dexterously. Surprisingly, no takers for the simple fact that this is just not right for the interests of the Test genre for which crowd support has already been dwindling.

Given this, India were rightfully expected to crush England in the first Test in Ahmedabad played in Ahmedabad from November 15 to November 19, 2012 to 'avenge' and indeed England would have obliged by crashing to an innings defeat within four days but for some splendid resistance to spin by England captain Alistair Cook (176) and wicket keeper Matt Pr