Ind vs Eng T20: 5 deep stains on captain Shreyas Iyer! England defeated India by 125 runs, the most embarrassing defeat in T20 history.

These days, big changes are being seen in the Indian cricket team, but the result of the team on the field is coming only in the form of defeat. After first losing the series to an underdog team like Ireland, now the Indian team under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer is facing huge humiliation even on the tour of England. In the third T20 match of the series, Team India had to face a very shameful and historic defeat of 125 runs at the hands of England. As captain, Shreyas Iyer has handled only 5 matches at the international level so far, but within these 5 matches, 5 deep stains have been left on his captaincy career. Let us understand step by step why the decision to choose Shreyas Iyer as captain is proving to be completely wrong for Team India at the moment.

Suryakumar Yadav was removed and the command was handed over to Iyer.

Star batsman Suryakumar Yadav, who made the Indian team the champion with his captaincy in the T20 World Cup 2026, was suddenly shown rest or out of the team and in his place Shreyas Iyer was given the command of the T20 team. Iyer had impressed everyone with his captaincy strategies in the Indian Premier League (IPL), but when it came to Team India, his magic seemed to have completely faded. First, the series defeat against Ireland left a mark and now against England too, the team seems to be in disarray. In the third T20, the Indian batting collapsed like a pack of cards in front of the English bowlers and the entire team was all out on the score of just 76 runs.

Daag No. 1: The biggest defeat in T20 history in terms of runs

The first and biggest stain on Shreyas Iyer’s captaincy is India’s biggest defeat by a margin of runs. For the first time in the history of T20 international cricket, the Indian team has suffered defeat by a huge margin of 125 runs. Earlier in the year 2019, Team India had lost against New Zealand by 80 runs, which was the worst record at that time. But now the record of this shameful defeat of 125 runs has been added to the account of Iyer’s captaincy.

Stain No. 2: Stain of lowest all out total (narrow escape)

In the third match against England, the entire Indian team collapsed for just 76 runs. Now this team under the captaincy of Iyer has come at second place in the list of India’s lowest all out total (minimum score) in T20 cricket. However, India’s lowest score is 74 runs (vs Australia, 2008). Iyer’s team missed breaking this most embarrassing all-time record by just 3 runs, otherwise it would have proved to be the biggest blemish in history.

Daag No. 3: Unwanted record of no win in 5 consecutive matches

This is the first time in the history of Indian cricket that even after 5 consecutive T20 International matches, Team India has not got a single win. Earlier in the year 2009 and 2021, there was a bad phase of 4-4 consecutive matches without any win, but under the leadership of Shreyas Iyer, Team India has left that figure behind and has created a new streak of 5 consecutive losing matches.

Stain No. 4: Very poor captaincy graph of last 12 matches

If we look at Shreyas Iyer’s overall captaincy record of the last 12 T20 matches (including domestic and international), the figures are very scary. Out of these 12 matches, Iyer as captain has faced a crushing defeat in 10 matches, while in his account only 1 win and 1 match has been inconclusive. This graph shows that the team’s winning combination has completely disintegrated under his leadership.

Stain No. 5: Distrust increased due to continuous changes within the team

After Ireland, now in the England series too, due to continuous captaincy and ‘experimentation’ in team combination, the lack of confidence among the players is clearly visible. Completely changing the core group of the World Champion team and entering the field with new boys without any concrete strategy raises the fifth biggest question mark on the captaincy skills of Shreyas Iyer. Now it will be interesting to see whether the Indian team is successful in saving its honor in the upcoming two matches of the series or whether England will create history by making a clean sweep.