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Image: Tredwell: England's bowlers struggled in the second ODI

The north of England is glorious; I've just driven home from Thirsk and the scenery along the route was absolutely stunning.

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MS Dhoni has been awesome and seems to come alive in one-day cricket, as indeed the whole country does. Where other teams are using one-day internationals as a chance to blood young cricketers, India will always put their strongest team out. But I would like to see them leave the umpires alone. Making decisions in front of 70,000 people is a difficult job. It is increasingly apparent that we need DRS to help them make the right decisions and it's a complete and utter nonsense that the Indian board keep resisting it. A perfect example is Yuvraj Singh in the last match. The ball was in line and hitting low, but he got a bit of a glove on it before it hit the pad. It was a hellishy difficult decision and the umpire didn't see it. But his mate on replay would have seen it and would have overturned it. It's too ridiculous for words that DRS isn't being used, it really is. Anyway, three more one-dayers and then I fly to New Zealand on January 31. That tour will come around thick and fast and I'm looking forward to meeting up with friends over there, in particular Ian Smith and Simon Doull. Also, I hope Martin Crowe is feeling better. Before that I'm back on the rattler to London... make sure to join us on Saturday. Watch India v England, Third ODI, from 6am, Saturday, Sky Sports 1 HD

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