After struggling against the Indian spinners in the first Test at Ahmedabad, England batsman Jonathan Trott is confident their batters will put up a better show in the second Test that begins at the Wankhede Stadium tomorrow. <img alt="" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/nov/trottrun_1.jpg" style="width: 400px; height: 330px;" /> England&rsquo;s Jonathan Trott. File Pic/ AFP India&rsquo;s left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha claimed 9-165, while off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin grabbed four for 191 in the Motera Test. Trott, who considers Mumbai as the &lsquo;heartbeat&rsquo; of India&rsquo;s cricket, is determined to level the series before the Kolkata Test. &ldquo;You don&rsquo;t want to mull over these things. You want to get back to the game and get back into the middle and crack on. Hopefully travelling to Kolkata 1-1 will be great. It will be a huge challenge, but this team has got used to such challenges in the last couple of years,&rdquo; said Trott after England&rsquo;s practice session yesterday. Trott, who scored a nought and 17 in the two innings of the first Test, said England&rsquo;s batsmen must get their basics right to play spin well. &ldquo;I still think we are improving (as far as playing spin is concerned). It gets highlighted because generally here you face spinners and they are going to take a lot more wickets. It&rsquo;s an emphasis of trusting your game and producing results. Bat like Cook &ldquo;We saw Cookie (captain Alastair Cook) the way he set up his game against spinners, it is effective. You don&rsquo;t have to play in a certain way. You just have to just get the basics right and as long as you do that well and succeed, no one really worries how you do it,&rdquo; said Trott, who wasn&rsquo;t impressive with his bat before the series too apart from a half-century in the first warm-up game against India &lsquo;A&rsquo; at CCI. &ldquo;To adjust for us is a challenge but we have players who can do that. So, there is no reason why we can&rsquo;t,&rdquo; he signed off.u00a0

In order to play spin effectively, Jonathan Trott believes England batsmen need to get their fundamentals in place

England should get the basics right: Trott

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