IND vs ENG: Jonathan Trott Urges England To Avoid 'Desperate' Approach Against India Spinners

Jonathan Trott has warned England's batsmen to maintain their patience and not become "too desperate" when facing in-form India spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Axar Patel. The pair have been key

You'd like to be able to learn and still win Test matches but unfortunately, that wasn't the case in the previous two. "All out batters, I think, have a pretty good method so it's about going out there and executing it and not perhaps trying to change too much mid-series," added Trott, who scored nearly 4,000 runs in 52 Tests from 2009-15.

It now appears unlikely that England will pursue a formal complaint about the Ahmedabad pitch as they try to clear their minds for the finale. But former fast bowler Darren Gough, England's spearhead when they beat the West Indies inside two days in a Test at his Headingley home ground in 2000, fears India may be on an unstoppable roll just as his side were more than 20 years ago.

"The momentum was with us, there's no hiding from it," Gough told Britain's Press Association. This England team has 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."