Former India wicket-keeper batter Dinesh Karthik shared how Shreyas Iyer looked annoyed during the post-match presentation after Team India’s humiliating 125-run defeat against England in the third T20I at Trent Bridge, Nottingham. The newly appointed captain is still searching for his first win amid a string of losses in Ireland and England since taking over from Suryakumar Yadav.

“Yes, India did not bat well. Probably one of the worst batting performances in a long time. But it was interesting, maybe odd, you can say, for the captain to come quite hard at the batting unit. He used the word atrocious to describe their batting, he used the word awful as well. You could see how disgruntled, a little bit upset he was, and he must be angry, understandably so, but knowing Shreyas Iyer, he has to to come back because he is such a key member in that batting unit, that if he scores, the team looks different, as well have seen with PBKS (Punjab Kings). He is such a critical component to this batting order as well,” Dinesh Karthik said on Cricbuzz.

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Dinesh Karthik also said that the Indian team should have chased down the total despite the pitch not entirely being a batting-friendly one. However, India showed a little bit of early promise, before collapsing and being bundled out inside 12 overs to register a loss by over 100 runs for the very first time in T20Is.

“What’s happening to Team India? Four of the last five matches have been lost, we are the world champions at the moment. The pitch was probably a little slow, but you expected 200 to be the par score, but we felt India, could have, should have chased that down,” Dinesh Karthik said.

“But barring that opening partnership where there were a couple of sixes, where we thought, ‘Alright, we are looking good here’. But once the openers fell, things changed. India had a collapse, not one player even got to 15. Their worst ever loss in T20Is, the world champions are finding it hard in England at the moment. India have a lot of work to do, and a lot of questions will be asked,” Dinesh Karthik concluded.