India are in the box seat after adding an extra 127 runs owing to missed catches, poor bowling and odd field placementFielding is an attitude, Shane Warne would often say. To the extent it could be tempting at times to conclude Shane Warne didn’t have 37 different nuggets of well-thumbed cricketing wisdom, he just said the same nugget of well-thumbed cricketing wisdom 37 times. But Warne was, of course, right, as he was about all cricket things, as you might expect from any self-respecting genius-level leg-spin, poker-playing, bikini-magnate-squiring wunderkind.What attitude was expressed by England’s fielding on day three of this fine-margins final Test, as India batted their way to a lead of 373? What kind of vibe, aura, energy is being projected by a unit that dropped a total of six catches in India’s second innings at the Oval, the most by any England team in almost 20 years? Continue reading...