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Fun Fact: For the first time in his ODI career, Virat Kohli was dismissed bowled off the very first ball of his innings today.

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India have taken the aggressive-start theory to a whole new level in men's T20Is. In last 2 years, their openers have struck at 184 which is 19 marks clear of second-best England (165). At 3-7 positions, India’s SR drops to 148 - eight marks behind table-toppers England (156).

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Terrible selection by India today. Tilak Varma should have played in place of TTV Namboori.

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@cricketaakash They go to Durham.

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@Mickeyarthurcr1 Shoaib average 39, Archer average 29!

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I wonder how opinions are made on small sample sizes. India beat Pakistan on tough wickets in Colombo and New York recently. The pitches in T20 WC 2024 and Asia Cup 2025 weren’t easy.

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Ashwin on India's defeat against Ireland.

- Indian players are accustomed to playing on the '24-carat' flat wickets of the IPL, whenever they face tough conditions at the international level, they will struggle significantly.

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@navshar54008403 I wonder how opinions are made on small sample sizes. India beat Pakistan on tough wickets in Colombo and New York recently. The pitches in T20 WC 2024 and Asia Cup 2025 weren’t easy.

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HISTORY IN BELFAST!

Ireland, the No. 11 ranked team in T20I rankings, despite being without six players due to injuries, have won the series (2-0) against the world No. 1 India.

For context, India had gone unbeaten in 16 consecutive T20I series/tournaments, a run that included two T20 World Cup titles and one Asia Cup triumph.

The last time India failed to win a single match in a T20I series was seven years ago against Australia. Both India and Ireland had a change in captaincy before the series. While it has been a dream start to Lorcan Tucker's captaincy career, Shreyas Iyer will be feeling very differently.

Funnily enough, one of the driving forces behind India's defeat was India-born left-arm pacer Jai Moondra, who made his debut for Ireland in this series and took three crucial wickets in the Powerplay in the second match.

India's T20 World Cup hero Sanju Samson and the swashbuckling Abhishek Sharma both fell for first-ball ducks.

It is the first time in T20I history that both India openers have been dismissed for golden ducks – a stat that pretty much sums up India's disappointing performance.

Well played, Ireland!

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Abhishek Sharma scored 49, not 50, in the first T20I against Ireland. The last ball of the 2nd over was a leg-bye which was corrected later. Lot of websites still have him 50 off 20 but it was 49 off 20.

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@vikrantgupta73 A win agains a team that is unbeaten for 16 series!

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Ireland have won against a team with this kind of elite record.

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India could play two-match ODI series against Sri Lanka this year.

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I think Vaibhav Sooryavanshi will play 3 out of 7 T20Is across Ireland and England series.

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Deepti Sharma took 5 wickets in her last match of the ICC tournament which was World Cup Final in 2025. Now she starts the T20 World Cup with a 5-for too.

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India started their innings with a six today [by Shafali Verma]. The first team in the Women's T20 World Cup history to hit a six off the first ball of the match. #IndvPak

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Rahmanullah Gurbaz’s 48-ball century is the second-fastest ODI hundred scored against India, behind only Shahid Afridi’s 45-ball ton in Kanpur in 2005.

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Kane Williamson finished his career closer to the 10,000-run milestone than any other retired batter in Test history.

The top retired batters finishing in 9,000s are:

Kane Williamson: 9515
Hashim Amla: 9282
Graeme Smith: 9265
Virat Kohli: 9230

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Ben Stokes’ nightclub troubles are improving my vocabulary. Bristol 2017 introduced me to the word affray and news of his latest controversy has added another word: melee.

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Unpopular opinion: Suryakumar Yadav was a phenomenal T20I batter but his greatness was limited to bilateral matches rather than big-stage tournament games. Never did well in big games.

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Babar Azam vs spin.