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And India confront a new reality in that, as the global reaction to England’s victory in the first Test drove home, they are the team to have a go at in the wake of the stunning series triumph they pulled off down under. The current contests had initially been previewed in terms of their centrality to the World Test Championship table equations ~ they are important enough still ~ but India’s defeat in the first Test bunged in sub-plots aplenty.