The Indian team have made a sorry surrender to England in the T20I series, now losing the third match in a row to lose the five-match series.
After the
first match got washed out, the Indian team has lost the next three and now trail 3-0 in this with a match to go.
Shreyas Iyer, as India captain, has made a disastrous start is winless after the first six matches, losing five of them.
In the 4th T20I, India won the toss and opted to bat first. Despite losing early wickets, Shreyas took charge with the bat and scored 80 runs off 49 deliveries. Despite his unbeaten knock, India could only manage 158/7 in their full quota of overs. In reply, Phil Salt and Harry Brook dismantled the Indian bowling as the hosts won the match by 9 wickets with more than six overs to spare.
Arshdeep Singh got the solitary wicket as Phil Salt stayed unbeaten on 59 runs, while Brook scored 79 off just 35 deliveries, hitting 8 fours and 4 sixes.
India suffer Consecutive T20I Series defeats
India, under Shreyas Iyer, has now lost back-to-back T20I series. After a 2-0 debacle against Ireland, they are now trailing to England without a win as well, thus Shreyas Iyer becoming the first Indian captain to lose his opening two bilaterals as India's T20 captain.
But this is not the first occurrence. Despite India's amazing record in T20Is, the team has suffered the similar fate in the past as well.
When did India lose Consecutive T20I Series Before?
It happened back in 2019, when the Indian team lost two bilateral T20I series in a row. First, the Indian team lost to New Zealand down under 2-1 in a three-match series. Soon after, Australia came to India and beat them 2-0 in a series. Virat Kohli was the captain in the series against the Aussies, and prior to that, Rohit Sharma captained India in New Zealand.
