India, June 27 -- Former Indian opening batter Sadagoppan Ramesh didn't mince his words as he tore into the management after the side led by Shreyas Iyer lost the opening T20I against Ireland by 34 runs on Friday. The visitors failed to chase down the target of 183 after being bundled out for 148. To make matters worse, India failed to bat out the full quota of twenty overs, and Ireland tasted its first-ever victory over India across any format. Ramesh put down India's loss to overconfidence and to treating the Ireland series as a "picnic."

No batter apart from Abhishek Sharma failed to leave a mark in the series opener, and India's tally would have looked all the more abysmal had the left-hander not scored a half-century off 19 balls. E...