Former England skipper Nasser Hussain while talking about how Team India outperformed the opposition in most of the departments said that Joe Root led side needed to take responsibility for the 1-3 series defeat.
England started their tour of India with a top performance beating hosts by 227 runs in the first Test in Chennai.
However, since then, Joe Root led side has been dominated by Team India as the hosts defeated visitors by big margins in the remaining three Tests of the series.
None of the English batsmen managed to find a way to counter the likes of R Ashwin and Akshar Patel, who proved to be the difference between the sides and took 59 wickets between them.
Writing in his column for Sky Sports, former English skipper Nasser Hussain said that England can have no excuses for the way they played in the series and added that hosts completely outplayed the visitors.
"England can have no excuses. They've played on three of four different surfaces, they've won three of the four tosses, they've misread conditions, they've rotated their side and since that first Test match, they've been hammered by 300-odd runs, by 10 wickets, and now by an innings and 20-odd runs in this game.
"India has just completely outplayed them, out-batted and definitely out-spun them; their spinners have been in a different league." Nasser Hussain said.
Hussain said that Joe Root led side should not be hiding behind various excuses about the pitch and need to take responsibility for the 1-3 series defeat.
"The point I'm trying to make is that I feel at the end of this series that we're going to give our cricketers a lot of excuses - 'it's county cricket', 'it's rotation', 'it's the pitch', 'it's playing in India' - players have to take responsibility, they're the ones who win or lose Test matches," he said.
Hussain said most of the batsmen didn't look comfortable against the left-arm spinners. He added that on poor pitches batsmen tend to lose their rhythm of batting.
"You wouldn't say the rest have looked comfortable against left-arm spin, whether in be Lasith Embuldeniya or Akshar Patel. It follows the usual downward spiral that you get on a tour and also when the pitches are poor as they have been in the two previous Test matches, you lose that rhythm of batting," said Nasser Hussain.
Hussain further said that it was tricky to see likes of Indian batsmen struggling and added that English batsmen except for skipper Root and all-rounder Ben Stokes have struggled to counter the Indian bowling.
"It's tricky and even the Indian batsmen, if you look at Pujara, Kohli, Rahane, they have lost the rhythm of batting and it is very difficult for a batsman. But you would say, right from day one, if it wasn't for Root - and Stokes to a degree when he started off well - I think the batting line-up has struggled," he concluded.
With their emphatic 3-1 series win over England, Team India will lock horns with New Zealand in the final of ICC World Test Championship in June.
(Sky sports inputs)
