Former Indian all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin has shed light on India’s batting failures after series loss against Ireland. In the opening game of the series, India suffered a 34-run loss as they could not chase down 183 at Belfast on Friday. Barring Abhishek Sharma, who scored 49 runs off 20 balls, none of the other Indian batters could show much resistance.
In the second game on Sunday, the visitors failed to chase down 155 runs. Tilak Varma scored 55 runs off 46 balls but the other batters failed to play according to the match situation.
Ashwin admitted Indian batters failed to adjust to the Irish conditions after playing on flat tracks in India during IPL 2026.
“The kind of 24-carat batting pitches we see in the IPL weren’t available here, and I really enjoyed the quality of cricket that was played. Most of this Indian batting line-up has come straight from the IPL. Their real value at the international level will be tested only when they play on wickets that are not true batting surfaces. The batting line-up has undoubtedly improved because of the IPL, but when they come across pitches offering movement and assistance to bowlers, they are going to face difficulties,” said Ashwin on his YouTube channel.
On the other hand, India’s newly appointed captain Shreyas Iyer gave credit to Ireland for outplaying them in all three departments of the game after series loss.
“It’s still definitely not a great series, honestly speaking, but kudos to them for the way they played. Ireland team, I think they showed professionalism and definitely had a tremendous idea about how the wicket was going to play and the field work there was phenomenal. So a comprehensive win to them and congratulations. Absolutely. I feel the bowlers, they were phenomenal in terms of their execution today. But we fell a bit short in our batting. We were, we fell a bit short in terms of analysing how the wicket is going to play and also converting singles into twos. I think they definitely outplayed us in that department,” said Iyer after the match.
India will next take on England in a five-match T20I series, starting Wednesday.
