Mumbai, Oct. 21 -- Ahead of the first New Zealand T20I, former Indian cricketer and assistant coach Abhishek Nayar spoke on comparisons between skipper Shreyas Iyer and his predecessor Suryakumar Yadav, a T20 World Cup winning captain, saying that the comparison is "out of the way", given how much Iyer has played away from India already. He also said that winning in New Zealand will earn Shreyas respect of everyone around him.

India will start the five-match T20I series against New Zealand with the first T20I from Thursday onwards. The assignment will be a crucial one for Shreyas, who lost series to Ireland and England right at the start of his T20I captaincy stint in India and could not win a match in either series. While he did win a s...