Shreyas Iyer Captaincy: One, two, three, four, five… keep counting because under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, the figure of Team India’s plight has reached not only 10 but also 15. This is the situation when Shreyas Iyer has captained only in 2 series. Forget months and years, his captaincy career lasted only 16 days. Simply put, the first 16 days of Iyer’s captaincy have proven to make Team India and its fans cry tears of blood.
16 days of captaincy and so many stains!
Now the question is that in 16 days of Shreyas Iyer’s captaincy team india What has he seen? Let us know one by one about those things, which you would not like to see repeated by the Indian cricket team in future.
1. Lost international match against Ireland for the first time
2. Lost the series against Ireland for the first time
3. Team India yearns for victory in 7 consecutive T20Is for the first time
4. Lost by 100+ runs for the first time in T20I
5. Biggest defeat in T20I by 125 runs
6. Made the second lowest score in T20I (76/10)
7. Lost T20 series against England after 12 years
8. Lost back to back T20 series after 7 years
9. For the first time, two Indian bowlers scored 60+ runs in the same T20.
10. Lost an international match in Bristol for the first time
11. 200+ partnership against India for the first time in T20I
12. Total of 250+ against India for the first time in T20I
13. 1600 days of dominance in T20I was snatched away
14. Lost 4 matches for the first time in a T20 series
15. Lost back to back T20 series without winning any match for the first time.
26th June to 11th July… Team India will not forget this time
Shreyas Iyer took over the T20 captaincy of Team India from the Ireland tour to the UK tour. Under the captaincy of Iyer, Team India played its first match against Ireland on 26 June. After that the second match was played on 28 June. After suffering the sting of clean sweep on the Ireland tour, Team India reached England where it lost 0-4 in the 5 T20 series. This figure could have also been 0-5, if one match had not been lost to rain. Under the captaincy of Iyer, Team India played the last T20 on the England tour on 11 July. In the 16 days between June 26 and July 11, many things were seen happening with Team India which its fans had not expected.
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