India vs England: The England team led by Harry Brook has done something which had never happened before. Yes, after a long wait of 12 years, England has won the T20 series against India for the first time.
England won the fourth match played in Bristol on Thursday (July 9) by 9 wickets and took an unassailable 3-0 lead in the 5-match series. Along with this, there has been a taint in the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, which had never happened in Indian T20I history. Shreyas Iyer has become the first captain of India to lose 5 consecutive T20Is. Not only this, this has happened after 7 years, when Team India has had to face defeat in 2 back to back T20 series.
Team India is still searching for its first win under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer. This wait is getting longer. Till a few days ago, winning in T20 cricket had become a habit for the Indian team, but now it has become a bad habit of losing. First, Ireland created history by defeating India 2-0 and now Shreyas’ team has faced defeat against England.
Addiction to defeat under Shreyas Iyer’s captaincy
When Shreyas Iyer became the T20I captain of India, it seemed that under his leadership this young Team India would touch new heights. Due to this thinking, the selectors had shown the way out to World Cup winning captain Suryakumar Yadav. However, the results so far have been such that coach Gautam Gambhir and chief selector Ajit Agarkar would have been forced to think whether they had made a big mistake?
The most surprising thing is that most of the players are the same who had won the T20 World Cup this year, but the new captain and the T20 champions on foreign soil have surrendered. Team India has lost 5 consecutive matches under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer. As a captain, he has not even tasted victory yet. The interesting thing is that what happened in two years under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav, happened in 14 days under the leadership of Iyer.
Shreyas Iyer has lost 5 consecutive matches as captain
Team India has lost 5 consecutive matches under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer. Do you know how much time it took for India to lose 5 matches under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav? The answer is- 2 years. This means that all the matches that India had lost in 2 years under Surya’s rule, were lost in 14 days under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer.
Shreyas Iyer shined with the bat
Even though Shreyas Iyer’s debut as a captain has been shameful, he is still shining with the bat for which he is known. Even in the ongoing series against England, he has been the only batting hero for India. In the fourth match played in Bristol, where the rest of the batsmen surrendered to the England bowlers, captain Shreyas alone scored 80 runs on 49 balls. Batting first, India scored 158 runs, which England achieved in just 13.5 overs and captured the series. In the 4 matches played so far, Shreyas Iyer has scored 190 runs at an average of 63.33 and he is also the top scorer of this series.