India, June 27 -- Shreyas Iyer had to wait for his time, but it has indeed come sooner rather than later. The right-handed batter replaced Suryakumar Yadav as the T20I captain earlier this year; however, his first match in charge didn't go according to plan as the Men in Blue went down by 34 runs against Ireland in the first T20I of the two-match series in Belfast on Friday. Iyer, who wasn't a part of the T20 World Cup 2026-winning squad, played his first T20I for India on Friday after a gap of two years.

Former England captain Michael Vaughan recently weighed in on the appointment of Shreyas as the skipper, saying he thought Ricky Ponting would become India coach when he first heard about Iyer's elevation in the T20I setup.

Vaughan the...