Former England pacer Darren Gough feels that the current Indian team's mentality is a lot like that of the mighty Australia that dominated cricket in the late 1990s and 2000s. Gough said that the current Indian team knows how to "get a team by the throat and win, win, win".
India registered a historic 2-1 series win over Australia Down Under and then went onto take an unbeatable 2-1 lead in the ongoing four-Test series against England after losing the opener.
Gough also went onto say that back-to-back defeats against India will leave England mentally "fragile" and it is going to be very difficult for them to make a comeback.
"This England team have been battered in back-to-back games now and it's going to be very difficult to come back from that. You can imagine the mentality of some of the lads will be quite fragile. The mentality of this India now is like Australia in the 90s: get a team by the throat and win, win, win," Gough told the PA news agency.
Gough also pointed out that limited-overs cricket was given preference over Tests by the England board, who decided to rest and rotate players throughout the series.
"If I was Joe Root, I'd be livid," he said.
"I feel for him because I believe one-day cricket has taken a high preference this time, just as he was getting something together with this team. Eoin Morgan has got his preferences over the Test side.
"I know we are building towards the T20 World Cup in India but our main players are settled, they don't need to play every 50-over or 20-over game. For the T20 series we should have gone in with some fringe players and seen who was ready to push for that squad.
"I really hope they can come away with a 2-2 draw, it would be a terrific result, but even then they'd be thinking 'have we missed a chance here? What if we'd kept all our best players together?'."