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may be well and truly over as a contest, but we still have the garden of Eden to tempt us.

After on Sunday night, England's players head to Kolkata for two games at

It will be the first international match England will have played at India's most famous ground since 2002 after

Despite the travails of the tour, many of England's players have expressed their excitement at playing at a ground which is sometimes described as cricket's answer to the Coliseum.

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The first thing I noticed when I opened my copy of this morning was a full page advert promoting the forthcoming one-day series with England. The headline was "Time for Vengeance - The war between India and England resumes from 14 October."

This was accompanied by a picture of several members of the India side dressed in army combat gear holding bats and stumps as if they were guns and other weapons. The sponsors of the ODIs are describing as "the Payback Series".

I think you can safely say that the Indian public were hurt by - and they are looking for revenge.

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