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Match factsNovember 9-13, Rajkot Start time 9.30am (0400GMT)Big PictureAs per popular perception, India the country appears to hold a special spite for England the cricket team. What else could the host broadcasters sales pitch always be trying to play on? In 2011 the advertising mocked an effeminate white man. India lost 4-0. In 2012-13, the ad campaign centred on playing the Englishmen like musical instruments. India lost 2-1. Thankfully this time the promotion is merely announcing that Virat Kohli and his team will play the England team (and not Angrez - Englishmen, the nationality - like last time) like a band.There is good reason to believe India will have it easy. They have looked near invincible at home since the start of the last season with the guile of R Ashwin and the accuracy of Ravindra Jadeja not giving visiting batsmen any breathing space. This side has fewer weak links and unfit bodies than the one that lost to England four years ago. Since that series England have lost two match-winning spinners and a genius batsman who could turn Tests single-handedly.In Bangladesh, Alastair Cook had to hide his spinners in his sides 1-1 draw, a series in which the home spinners took 38 of the 40 England wickets. They are also without James Anderson, one of the finest exponents of reverse swing, for one Test at least.While England struggled against Bangladesh, India had a response for everything New Zealand threw at them in a 3-0 series win. The lower order scored runs when the batsmen failed, the spinners kept finding ways to get batsmen out, the quicks chipped in when the spinners tired or when the ball reversed, and there was no let-up in the intensity in the field. They will just want to keep repeating what they have been doing over the last two home series as they take Test cricket to a new outpost: Rajkot; the Saurashtra region has a rich history of providing Test cricketers and patronage to the sport.If England are to win a Test, they will need to take all of New Zealands discipline and add to it. They will have to reverse the ball, which New Zealand couldnt but England did in equally humid conditions in Bangladesh. Their lower order scored crucial runs in Bangladesh, but they wil