New Delhi, July 4 -- Forty-eight hours ago, Ireland completed what cricket had never seen before: a Test-playing nation winning a T20 series against India. Now Shreyas Iyer's squad arrives at Old Trafford for what is effectively the first competitive match of a five-match England series, and Saturday afternoon in Manchester is the first occasion this group has had to answer the question the last two days in Belfast posed.

where debutant Jai Moondra's three-wicket burst ended India's 33-month unbeaten T20I series run in the final match - gives Saturday's fixture a weight that a second game in a five-match tour series would not ordinarily carry.

India have assembled a deliberately young T20 squad for this leg of the England tour. Rohit Sh...