India, June 25 -- Team India, led by Shreyas Iyer, will embark in a new era when the reigning world T20I champions face Ireland in the first of the two T20Is at the Civil Service Cricket Club, Stormont, Belfast on June 26, Friday. The Men in Blue will also be playing the shortest format for the first time since the heady night at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad when they clinched their third T20 World Cup title.

Although Suryakumar Yadav is no longer a part of the setup, neither as captain or player, the tourists have plenty of exciting players in their ranks to light up the format. The chief among them remains Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, who has taken the cricketing fraternity by storm with some audacious and enterprising stroke play a...