England vs India: Hosts need "superhuman effort" to comeback, says Gavaskar

Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar said that England will require a "superhuman effort" to make a comeback in the ongoing five-match Test series against India.

"India have dealt a psychological blow to England and it will take a superhuman effort from the home team to come back in the series. Yes, cricket is a game of uncertainties and things can turn around quite dramatically but for that to happen it will take a miracle," Gavaskar wrote in his column for The Telegraph India.

Gavaskar stated on the fact that the English team is heavily dependent on skipper Joe Root who was brilliant with the bat in both the matches with his centuries in the first two games.

"At the start of the fifth day's play, the general thinking was that England would win the game. But, on a last-day pitch even 180 would have been tough as seen by the team being dismissed for 120 and losing by a big margin. Their batting depends so much on Root that if he doesn't hold the innings together, then the innings comes apart at the seams," Gavaskar added.