For all England's issues - and there are question marks about the attack, Kevin Pietersen's return, how the opening partnership will work and Cook's leadership - India are vulnerable as well.
They are going through a peculiar phase of their own where a lot of the senior batsmen are coming towards the end of their time and seamer Zaheer Khan is on his last legs.
The spin threat is there from the likes of Ravichandran Ashwin but it's not, I wouldn't have said, as great a threat as Pakistan posed in the UAE last winter.
It's also worth noting that India, admittedly on their travels, have looked fairly uninterested in Test cricket of late and that will worry Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Duncan Fletcher.
I wouldn't put it past England to challenge India strongly over the four Tests but I genuinely feel that the series could go either way; England could get walloped or they could win easily.
In a way not knowing is quite nice because I've been on a lot of tours where the outcome is clear before the contest has begun, which robs sport of much beauty.
But over the next month or so anything could happen - and it's fantastic to have such a sense of anticipation ahead of a major series.
England's Test series in India begins on Thursday November 15 at 3.30am on Sky Sports 1 HD.
