India lacked mental strength to fight: Vaughan

A pathetic India paid the price for focussing more on James Anderson incident than on their game, former captain Michael Vaughan said while British media termed India’s capitulation in the fourth Test as ‘spineless’.

Former England skipper Vaughan said ‘India were simply embarrassing’ as they did not have the mental strength or character to fight under pressure.

‘They have been brought up facing orthodox off spin but they made it look as though Moeen Ali was bowling hand grenades and folded abysmally. They just gave up under pressure, they threw in the towel. For the past two weeks it looks to me as if India have been fighting too many battles off the pitch and have forgotten to fight on it,’ Vaughan wrote in his coloumn for ‘Daily Telegraph’.

‘They got embroiled in the James Anderson case and were so bent on getting him banned that they took their eye off the cricket. England did not produce magic deliveries; it was poor batting, with India lacking the mental strength or character to fight through the situation.