Shreyas Iyer was killed by bowler Hollard, who was playing his first match.Image Credit source: Getty Images

After winning the T20 World Cup in 2024, the Indian team started a new era under the leadership of a new captain. Similarly, after becoming T20 champion for the second consecutive time in 2026, Team India started its journey with a new captain. But it seems that this change is causing personal harm to the new captains. While Suryakumar Yadav's form deteriorated completely, the start of the new captain Shreyas Iyer was also not good. Iyer, who was making his captaincy debut against Ireland, got out after scoring only 3 runs in the first T20 match.

The T20 series between India and Ireland started on 26 June in Belfast. where everyone waits Vaibhav Suryavanshi's debut So, eyes were also on Shreyas Iyer. Suryavanshi did not debut but Iyer got a chance to make his debut as T20 captain. Not only his debut as captain, but this match was also special for Iyer because he returned to the Indian T20 team after being out for 936 days and 63 consecutive matches.

Iyer failed on comeback and captaincy debut

But this comeback and debut match as a batsman was not at all good for Iyer and he failed in the very first exam. In response to the target of 183 runs set by Ireland, Team India made an explosive start in the powerplay on the strength of Abhishek Sharma but from the other side Sanju Samson and Ishan Kishan were out early. In such a situation, Iyer had to come out to bat in the powerplay itself.

But he too could not last long and was out in the sixth over itself. Fast bowler Matthew Hollard, playing his first match, got Iyer caught out at deep square leg. Iyer faced 7 balls and could score only 3 runs. In this way the first match proved to be very bad for the Indian captain.

Vice captain Tilak also failed, Team India lost for the first time

But not only Iyer, but Tilak Verma, who was appointed the vice-captain of Team India for the first time, also could not do anything special. Tilak hit 2-3 good shots but despite remaining at the crease for 21 balls, he was out after scoring only 19 runs and left the team in the lurch. But the same was the condition of the entire Indian team and except Abhishek Sharma, the rest of the batsmen disappointed, which resulted in a crushing defeat by 34 runs, which is Ireland's first win against India.

Sumit Sundriyal

Presently I am working as Assistant News Editor (Sports) in TV9 Hindi (Sports 9). Reaching here started from 2009, when I took admission in Mass Media Honors Course (2009-12) at Jamia Millia Islamia. Then in 2013, he completed Post-Graduation Diploma in Hindi Journalism from Indian Institute of Mass Communication. It was from here in 2013 that he entered professional journalism for the first time and first made a place in News 18 India TV channel. Before taking entry in digital journalism, he spent about 6 years in the TV industry, where he worked on the assignment desk. While at the assignment desk, gathering information is the most important task and it is the responsibility to check every aspect of that news and take it forward. Did the same thing while working at News 18 India. After this, the fascination with sports and sports news turned towards digital journalism and a new journey began. It started during IPL 2019, when Quint joined Hindi. After writing sports news with Quint for a year, he joined TV9 Hindi to achieve a new position in this work. For the last 3 years, I have been bringing every small, big, serious and funny sports news to you here and am constantly trying to present it in a better way.

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