India’s assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate credited Ireland for outplaying Shreyas Iyer and Co. in the two-match series while admitting that the team will have to learn to adapt to different conditions.
Ireland created history by defeating India for the first time in a bilateral series. This defeat brought an end to India’s unbeaten run of 16 T20I series. Playing a T20I series for the first time in Belfast, India failed to get accustomed to the conditions, a point ten Doeschate highlighted in the post-match press conference.
“So firstly, credit to Ireland, and secondly the learnings for us in terms of being able to adapt to different conditions. That’s probably the biggest takeaway from this. The guys really know how to play in India. This is a good lesson in the fact that we’re going to have to adapt and play slightly differently when we go to different countries and play against different teams.”
Ten Doeschate stressed finding ways to tackle different conditions and opposition bowling plans.
“That was essentially our undoing,” he said. “It’s things we spoke about before, but we just didn’t address it well enough out in the middle. I think the big thing was the wind. Again, absolutely no excuses, but when presented with a different challenge, we have to find solutions to play in a different manner, in a better manner. I thought Ireland did that very well with the ball. They never let us hit straight. In two matches, I think we hit two straight sixes. They were both off the spinner. They just did the basics really well and we couldn’t combat that.”
India will travel to Durham, where they will begin the five-match T20I series against England on July 1.
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