The Indian cricket team had to face another embarrassing defeat against England, in the fourth T20, England won by 9 wickets and took an unassailable lead in the series. Under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, Team India has lost the second consecutive series, before this the team had lost 0-2 against Ireland. Not only the captain but also the head coach Gautam Gambhir is being severely criticized, questions are being raised on his strategy.

Why the constant change?

Many former players have already warned Gautam Gambhir that it is not right to make changes after every match. Questions are being raised on the strategy of Team India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir. Prasidh Krishna and Washington Sundar were dropped after the first match against Ireland. It was not right to judge him on one match, otherwise Prince Yadav would have been bowled in the first match itself.

Prince Yadav performed brilliantly in his debut T20 against Ireland, but he was not included in the first T20 against England. Prasidh and Washington were brought in for the fourth T20 against England, with mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy dropped. Changes after every match reflect pressure.

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The player who won the World Cup was dropped

Of course, Sanju Samson did not play in both the matches against Ireland, his bat remained silent in the first match against England too but the Player of the Tournament could have been given another chance in his World Cup. Of course, there was a demand to bring Vaibhav Suryavanshi in the playing 11, but it was not right to bring him in place of Sanju Samson.

Vice-captain Tilak Verma’s bat is silent, even in the match when he is scoring some runs, the strike rate remains low. He could have been removed, but he was backed and the World Cup hero was dropped. Many former players have also criticized this decision.

Team India is not able to field 5 proper bowlers

The biggest strength of Team India is batting, but looking at the playing 11, it seems that the captain and coach do not have full confidence even in their batsmen. India wants to bat till number 8, but what about bowling. Anil Kumble has also raised questions regarding the fact that batsmen score runs and bowlers win matches, hence it is necessary to have 5 proper bowlers. There are many all-rounders in the team right now. Even in yesterday’s match, three all-rounders were playing in the form of Akshar Patel, Washington Sundar and Shivam Dubey.

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Insecurity increased due to arrival of Vaibhav Suryavanshi?

However, it is not that India has lost matches since the arrival of Vaibhav Suryavanshi, because he was not playing in both the matches against Ireland. But still he was a part of the team, in such a situation the pressure has increased on other batsmen that they have to score runs at a fast pace otherwise Vaibhav can take his place. Ravi Shastri had also said that once Vaibhav comes into the playing 11, it will be difficult to replace him. In such a situation, it is natural for other players to have insecurity. Regarding this, questions are raised on captain Shreyas Iyer and head coach Gautam Gambhir that they did not handle this situation well.

Shreyas Iyer will create history when he comes to Dharamshala for the toss today. He will become the fifth player to play 100 matches as captain in IPL. Before him, great players like Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni etc. have done this. Today Punjab Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore will face each other in Dharamshala.

Under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, Punjab Kings made a great start in IPL 2026, the result of which is that despite losing 5 consecutive matches, the team remains in the top-4. But now Punjab will not be able to face another defeat, because then their chances of being out of the playoff race will increase. Royal Challengers Bangalore won their first IPL title by defeating Punjab. After that both the teams will face each other for the first time.

Shreyas Iyer’s 100th match as captain

Shreyas Iyer has captained Delhi Capitals, Kolkata Knight Riders and Punjab Kings in a total of 99 matches so far. Under his captaincy, Delhi reached the finals, after which he made KKR the champion under his captaincy and took Punjab to the finals in his very first year. Even in the ongoing season, PBKS was looking brilliant under his captaincy, but in the last 5 matches the picture completely changed.

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The player who has played the most matches in IPL as captain is MS Dhoni, who captained a total of 235 matches for Chennai Super Kings and Rising Pune Supergiants. He made CSK champion 5 times under his captaincy.

Rohit Sharma is the second player to captain the most number of matches in IPL, who captained Mumbai Indians in 158 matches and made the team win the title 5 times. At third place in the list is Virat Kohli, who captained Royal Challengers Bangalore in 143 matches. However, he could not win any title for RCB under his captaincy.

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Gautam Gambhir also captained in more than 100 matches in IPL. He captained a total of 129 matches for Delhi Daredevils and Kolkata Knight Riders. Under his captaincy, KKR won the IPL trophy in 2012 and 2014. Now Shreyas Iyer is going to become the fifth captain to captain in 100 matches.