All the remaining Tests will have results," predicted England's 1986-87 Ashes-winning captain Mike Gatting, on a visit to Mumbai last week, after the opening Test went Australia's way at Edgbaston.

Gatting is no astrologer, but he has been in the thick of international cricket as a player and observer for 40-plus years and witnessed how Test cricket has evolved. The ongoing second Test at the Middlesex man's home ground, Lord's, makes for a fascinating battle between two teams that can be equally brilliant and benevolent with the kind of cricket they dish out.