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New Delhi. Ireland defeated the Indian team by 34 runs in the first match of the T20 series held at the Civil Service Cricket Club. This victory of Ireland is historic. After winning the T20 World Cup 2026, Team India, playing a match in this format for the first time, while chasing the target of 183 runs, was limited to 148 runs in 18.5 overs. Team India also made many shameful records in this match. Let’s take a look at these unwanted records…
The Indian team, which set out to chase the target of 183, had a very bad start. The wickets of Samson (5), Ishan Kishan (1) and captain Shreyas Iyer (3) fell early. Abhishek Sharma was the only batsman who was seen playing in his own style. Abhishek played an inning of 50 runs in 20 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 7 fours. Tilak Verma (19), Shivam Dubey (25), and Akshar Patel (15) could not convert good starts into big innings. The Indian team, losing wickets at regular intervals, lost the match.
This is India’s first defeat against Ireland in any format of international cricket. Before this, India had played a total of 8 T20 matches and three ODI matches against Ireland, but never faced defeat. Apart from this, it will be the first time after 2024 that Team India will not be successful in winning any T20 series, because only one match is left in the current series and by winning it the team will be able to reach parity.
During this match, right-arm fast bowler Prasidh Krishna became the bowler who gave away the maximum 125 runs in two consecutive T20 International matches. Prasidh Krishna bowled 4 overs in the match, giving away 57 runs without taking any wicket. Earlier, on 28 November 2023, he had given 68 runs in 4 overs against Australia. Even in that match, Krishna could not take any wicket.
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Prasidh Krishna made his debut in T20 International cricket on 28 November 2023, since then he has bowled a total of 144 balls in 6 matches, in which he has given away 277 runs. During this period he took 8 wickets. Prasidh Krishna played the first two matches of his T20 international career against Ireland. In the first match, he took 2 wickets for 32 runs. In the next match, he took 2 wickets for 29 runs. Prasidh Krishna was not a part of the T20 team for a long time. Now when Krishna was again included in the Indian team, he has once again disappointed the Indian fans.
Ireland has become the 11th team to lose to India in international cricket. Ireland has defeated the eighth full member team. Now only Australia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka are left who have never faced defeat from Ireland. The Irish team cannot lose this series now. In such a situation, his eyes will be on winning the second and last match and winning the historic series against India for the first time.
