By Anand Vasu Did you know that the photocopier, the cooker, rollerskates and skateboards, the whistle, the X-Ray scanner, the vacuum cleaner, the car horn and the windscreen wiper were all invented in Birmingham? In the City of A Thousand Trades, however, England did not reinvent their cricketing wheel. Rather, they found the right surface to use it on. England reverted to the brand of cricket that has made them a powerhouse over the last four years, shedding the diffidence of their last four matches, but they were only able to do so because they got perhaps the best batting conditions of the tournament at Edgbaston. Take nothing away from England, their batsmen came hard from the start, endured a passage of Indian resurgence and finished strongly to post 338. The target was no means beyond India, but it was going to need several things to fall into place. When KL Rahul departed early, India’s two best batsmen, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, got together to find a way to transfer some of the pressure back onto England. On any other day, one of the two would have laid into the bowling but so good was England’s bowling that neither…