When I was younger, my friends and I were asked to find jelly beans in an open field and as kids, we loved it. Times have changed, we are all older and we don’t crave jelly beans anymore. In other words, we have become mature. But, the English don’t seem to be mature enough and still act like infants.

It was appalling to see professional cricketers act like kids by strewing jelly beans around the playing area. It may have been an act of desperation but professional means “you hide it all”. The Brits might have had a chuckle when the innocent looking Zaheer walked towards the slip region like a child complaining, but on the world scene, it’s a shameful act of cowardice.

Maybe the England team has resorted to illegal ways of swinging the cricket ball by smearing the stickiness from jelly bean onto the ball. Cricket administrators have never doubted the integrity of the white teams in International cricket and I doubt they would it this time round.

Keeping the jelly bean episode aside, the victory at Trent Bridge although expected is sweet especially when you almost lost the first one. Indian players deserve this victory just for sheer team work. They gelled as a team during the entire test, fought as a single unit which brought about the ever-sweet victory.

India should go with the same intensity in the final test at the Oval. A series win is something India has been eying for a couple decades and lets accept, we have the best chance now. Now or not for a very long time.