India suffered an embarrassing innings defeat in the third Test played at Headingley, Leeds. The five-match series now stands at 1-1, opening up the series. The 4th Test of the series will begin on September 2nd at the Oval.

England’s assistant coach Paul Collingwood feels that India will bounce back strongly after losing by an innings and 76 runs. He said that England bowled well and used the conditions to their favour and bowled India out for 78 in the first innings. 

"I thought we bowled tremendously well. It is easy to criticise the Indian batsmen when you are an Indian supporter but there was a lot of movement on the pitch on the first day. It was kind of conditions with a bit of moisture in the pitch and it was tricky for the batsman, the way we bowled against them. Virat (Kohli) said in his post-match conference, the accuracy and relentlessness of our bowlers was something that they struggled against and accuracy I thought was fantastic," Collingwood said at a virtual media interaction with select Indian journalists.

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Collingwood added that comparing this Indian team with Australia in terms of how they played the game would be harsh. 

"...both sides, they don't want to give an inch. When you have two countries where cricket means a lot to them, a set of players for whom winning means a lot, then you do have heated exchanges.

It was a great game to watch and we were on the wrong end of the result, but the level of intensity that we got from the game, the performance level we got from the game were right up there with anything you would see," he explained.

The fourth Test begins on 2 September and will be played at The Oval. 

(With PTI inputs)