Former England captain Nasser Hussain has opened up on the fact that England are placed 8th in the World Test Championship points table. However, England have won three Tests out of their 9 Test matches, lost 5, and drawn 1 as well. Their high-risk high-reward Bazball cricket has seen its advantages and disadvantages also.

However, England has a win percentage of just 19.44 in the ongoing WTC cycle and they are placed below the likes of Pakistan, West Indies and South Africa as well. Hussain, in his column at the Daily Mail has questioned the balance between the team, ahead of the team’s final Test match against India in Dharamsala.

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“For all the good things that this England team have done in making people want to watch their matches, right now they sit second bottom in the World Test Championship table and results remain the most important currency. In the end, all sports teams are judged on their statistics. How they end up at the end of a season or a series. In cricket, how many runs you scored, the wickets you took. Yes, you will inevitably get people talking about the style in which you played the game and rightly so, and that is where the likes of Shane Warne, Ian Botham and Brian Lara come into the conversation. This England side have provided great viewing over the past two years, too, but the win-loss ratio is the most important thing,” he wrote.

However, England made headlines with their aggressive approach in Hyderabad in the first Test match, but have failed to win in the last three Test matches against India. There were several instances where England were on the verge of taking the lead in the Test matches against India, but the team failed to capitalise on those moments as well.

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“They must get the scoreline versus India back to 3-2 in Dharamsala this week. Of course, they’ll still have lost the series, but they can then point to the third days of the third and fourth Tests, when they let things slip on each occasion, as a justification that they were competitive across the entire five-match tour. That they simply failed to take their opportunities. Come home with a 4-1 defeat, though, and the gulf between the sides looks huge. Inevitably, it will feel like the same old story for England in India,” Nasser Hussain concluded.