Shreyas Iyer made a record, became the fourth Indian captain to do so, equaling the record of Dhoni-Rohit

New Delhi. The third T20 International match was played between India and England at Trent Bridge, Nottingham. After losing the second match, Team India entered this match with one change. After giving away 60 runs in four overs, Ravi Bishnoi was dropped from the playing-11 and fast bowler Prince Yadav was included. In the match, India won the toss and asked England to bat first. After winning the toss, Shreyas Iyer registered his name in a special club. Iyer also equaled the special records of Rohit Sharma and MS Dhoni.

Actually, Shreyas Iyer has become the fourth Indian captain to win the toss in 5 or more consecutive T20 International matches. Iyer, who is leading the T20 team from the Ireland tour, won the toss in the fifth consecutive match in Nottingham, thereby equaling the record of Rohit Sharma and MS Dhoni. Both these greats had also won the toss in 5 consecutive matches in T20 International. Dhoni did this in 2007, while Rohit Sharma achieved this milestone during 2020 to 2022.

Who won the most consecutive tosses?
The record of winning the most toss in consecutive T20 matches for India is in the name of the most successful captain MS Dhoni. Dhoni played 7 consecutive T20 matches between 2010 and 2012 and won all the toss. Virat Kohli is at second place in this list. Kohli won the toss while captaining India in 6 consecutive T20s in 2019. After Iyer, he has a chance to become number-1 in this list by leaving behind Dhoni and Kohli in the next few matches.

India’s bowling after winning the toss
In this match, India won the toss and decided to bowl. After winning the toss, Indian captain Shreyas Iyer said, ‘We will bowl first.’ On the defeat in the last match, Iyer said, ‘It was just a small hurdle which you cannot control, but the morale of the players is high. There has been a change in the team. Prince has come in place of Bishnoi.

India’s playing eleven: Abhishek Sharma, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Shreyas Iyer (captain), Shivam Dubey, Tilak Verma, Axar Patel, Harshit Rana, Prince Yadav, Arshdeep Singh and Varun Chakraborty.

England’s playing eleven: Philip Salt, Jos Buttler (wk), Harry Brook (c), Jacob Bethel, Tom Banton, Sam Curran, Will Jacques, Liam Dawson, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid and Josh Tong.