Toss India chose to bowl vs Ireland
Nine hundred and thirty six days since he last played a game in the shortest format, Shreyas Iyer pulled on the India blues and this time it came with the armband. The new captain of the back-to-back T20 world champions won the toss in Belfast and chose to bowl against Ireland. Iyer made a mention of the three-peat being the ultimate aim for India and backed the crew that won the title in February to continue doing the job. It meant 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi will have to wait for his international debut.
Ireland were happy to hand out first caps to fast bowlers Matt Hollard and Jai Moondra. They had a new captain as well and Lorcan Tucker will have to put his best foot forward after the toss went against him, preventing him from doing what he wanted - chasing a total. Ireland are playing India for the ninth time in T20Is. They are yet to secure a victory.
India: 1 Sanju Samson (wk), 2 Abhishek Sharma, 3 Ishan Kishan, 4 Shreyas Iyer (capt.), 5 Tilak Varma, 6 Shivam Dube, 7 Axar Patel, 8 Washington Sundar, 9 Harshit Rana, 10 Arshdeep Singh, 11 Prasidh Krishna.
Ireland: 1 Tim Tector, 2 Ross Adair, 3 Harry Tector, 4 Lorcan Tucker (capt. & wk), 5 Ben Calitz, 6 Gareth Delaney, 7 George Dockrell, 8 Liam McCarthy, 9 Matthew Humphreys, 10 Jai Moondra, 11 Matt Hollard