India, June 29 -- Former India batter Sanjay Manjrekar has questioned India's team balance under head coach Gautam Gambhir after the T20I side suffered a shock 0-2 series defeat against Ireland in Belfast.

India, who entered the short series as heavy favourites, lost the opening T20I by 34 runs before going down by one run in the second match. The result gave Ireland their first-ever T20I series win over India and also raised immediate questions over the direction of India's white-ball rebuild under Gambhir.

Manjrekar, reacting to the defeat, suggested that India may have overcorrected in their search for all-round options.

"It was too little earlier.under Gambhir, it's too many. The 'all rounders'. India need a PURE middle order batte...