India v England: MS Dhoni sticks to guns as tourists unleash Steve Finn Finn will almost certainly replace Stuart Broad, who has gone wicketless for two Tests and has looked out of sorts. Finn may not offer an immediate solution but his extra pace at least allows England to resort to something new in their search for wickets. Graeme Swann and Monty Panesar excelled at Mumbai but it will not always be like that and England need another source of wickets, something that has been in woefully short supply outside the spin department with only James Anderson so far in credit having taken two. A year ago, Finn enjoyed success here in the one-day series and was the pick of England's bowlers. The tactics will be slightly different in a Test, with him chasing wickets more, but he knows what to expect and that is half the battle. "I enjoy bowling here," said Finn after Monday's nets. The subcontinent poses a different challenge to fast bowlers, it challenges other skills that you need to use, namely reverse swing. I think that fast bowlers are under-rated in these conditions. We saw the Indian quicks doing well in the first Test and picking up wickets at important times. Again, hopefully the seamers can be used in similar fashion in this game. The decline of Broad is something that can happen on tours here. Docile pitches (for fast bowlers), a virus or two, can undermine seam bowlers. That England made him vice-captain means they must have planned to play him in every Test, presumably in a three-man pace attack. But Dhoni's plans for spinning pitches changed all that and now England find themselves in the unusual position of dropping their second in command. "There's no hiding place as a bowler," said Finn. You have to keep on running in. Broady's an exceptional cricketer and he's had tough times in his career before with injury. But he's played 50 Tests and is a world-class bowler. He'll come back, definitely. England's other likely change is for Ian Bell to slot back at No 5 in place of Jonny Bairstow after missing the second Test to be with his wife and their newborn son. It is not the only option and England could play him in place of Samit Patel or Jonathan Trott, neither among the runs so far. It is much cooler here than in Mumbai so Patel's half-dozen overs a day will not be as helpful. Instead the argument turns to who between him and Bairstow, or Trott, will get more runs on a slow turner, a question none has really answered yet. India will surely make one change, replacing spinner Harbhajan Singh with Ishant Sharma, the lanky pace bowler, who was a fixture in India's team a few years ago until injury did for him, He is back now with an in-depth knowledge of the reverse-swing so crucial for working lbws on low-bouncing pitches. Calcutta is known as the City of Joy but it has been anything but for England's cricketers over the years. Since 1934, they have won just one Test, in 1976-77, out of nine, and endured a host of disappointments including losing the 1987 World Cup final against Australia. This is their first Test here in 19 years, their previous one, a comprehensive defeat, being best remembered for the Smog report that Ted Dexter, then chairman of selectors, wanted commissioned in the wake of several England players falling ill with respiratory problems. Calcutta has cleaned up its air since then and apart from the 9am starts, and the dew that should help Finn and his ilk for an hour in the mornings, the stadium, despite reducing its capacity by 40 per cent to 65,000, looks as grand and imposing as ever. That many spectators are unlikely to turn up this time though they may get a few in if Sachin Tendulkar threatens to quell his critics with his 52nd Test hundred.