The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will conduct a comprehensive performance review of the national men’s T20I team immediately following the conclusion of the ongoing United Kingdom tour on July 19, 2026. Devajit Saikia is an Indian advocate, a former first class cricketer and a cricket administrator. He is the secretary of the BCCI. Saikia was re-elected as the secretary of the top cricket body of India on September 28, 2025 during their 94th AGM in Mumbai. Devajit Saikia is an Indian advocate, a former first class cricketer and a cricket administrator. He is the secretary of the BCCI. A legendary shooter, outstanding coach, and mentor to countless athletes, his contribution to Indian shooting is immeasurable. BCCI concerned over India’s T20I slump, review planned after England series: Devajit Saikia after back-to-back T20I series defeats against Ireland and England, the BCCI will review India’s recent slump, with secretary Devajit Saikia admitting the board is “deeply concerned” by the team’s performances.
BCCI to review recent white-ball setbacks Describing India’s successive T20I series defeats in Ireland and England as “a bad phase” rather than a cause for panic, Saikia stressed that the exercise would be a “performance review” rather than a knee-jerk reaction decision follows an alarming string of results during their United Kingdom tour under newly appointed T20I captain Shreyas Iyer. BCCI springs into action after India’s debacle in Ireland and England, to review ‘bad phase’: ‘Not upto the mark’ will convene to review India’s performance in the Ireland and England series. Here’s what BCCI secretary said.
The defending T20 World Cup champions have failed to show any spark and have been battered in the four T20Is against England. Under Shreyas, the team has failed to win a single match so far, and the visitors will aim for a consolation win on Saturday in the fifth and final game of the five-match series.
However, ahead of the fifth T20I, BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia made it clear that the Indian board is not happy with the team’s performance, and that a review will take place after the three ODIs against England.
Saikia also made it clear that all the core members of the men’s team will be part of the review meeting and that the course correction will be discussed. “The BCCI is currently observing the performance of the Indian T20 team, which has not been up to the mark in the ongoing series against England. However, this is not something abnormal and can happen in international cricket,” Saikia told news agency PTI. “We consider it a purely bad phase. Once the ODI series gets over on July 19 and the team comes back, we will have a review meeting with core members of the team to discuss what went wrong in England. Since there is an ODI series, we are hoping that the team will be back in good form,” he added.
Horrid start
The third and fourth T20Is saw India being hammered by England. In the third T20I, India were bundled out for just 76, while the previous game saw the hosts chasing down the target of 159 with 37 balls to spare and nine wickets in hand.
Under Shreyas, the Men in Blue have looked a pale shadow of their previous selves, and the management is also coming under fire for the latest performance. India head coach Gautam Gambhir repeatedly used the word “transition” after the 76 all-out game, but fans weren’t convinced by his reasoning. However, the BCCI secretary made it clear that changes within the coaching staff or the selection committee are unlikely, as the review meeting will be strictly about the performance
“The review meeting will be strictly about the performance of the team and how course correction can be done with regard to shortfalls. Nothing else will be discussed,” said Saikia.
The Catalysts for the Review
The board intervened after the reigning T20 World Cup champions suffered a historic five-match losing streak in the shortest format: BCCI to review India’s ‘bad phase’ in T20Is after England tour secretary Saikia made it clear that the meeting would focus solely on cricketing matters
Captain: Shubman Gill (Tests, ODIs), Shreyas Iyer (T20Is)
Coach: Gautam Gambhir (head coach), Morne Morkel (bowling coach), Sitanshu Kotak (batting coach), Ryan ten Doeschate (assistant coach), T Dilip (fielding coach)
First international match: 1932
Cricket board: Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
ICC titles: 8
India Men’s Cricket Team History
India played their first Test match, against England at Lord’s, in 1932, but it took over 70 years for them to truly come into their own as a force in cricket: they developed into one of the game’s powerhouses under Mahendra Singh Dhoni, and especially Virat Kohli, in the second decade of the 21st century.
Sunil Gavaskar, perhaps India’s first world-beating batter, who was the first to the 10,000-run milestone in Tests, came along in the early 1970s. Kapil Dev, an allrounder who ranked with the world’s best, and was India’s finest since spinner-batter Vinoo Mankad in the 1940s, broke through later that decade.
Fan following for the sport in the country surged in the years following their fairy-tale first ODI World Cup win, in 1983, and by the late 1990s, India was the world’s biggest cricket market: the money from the sale of TV rights to grab the attention of its hundreds of millions of fans had begun in large part to call the shots in the game.
The rise of Sachin Tendulkar, a world-record-setting superstar batter like none in the game before him, helped underline the country’s growing stature in cricket. Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Sourav Ganguly, and a little later Virender Sehwag, were the lynchpins of a golden age of Indian batting in the 2000s.
| Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | Draw | W/L | Ave | RPO | Inns | HS | LS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| filtered | 1987-2026 | 161 | 95 | 27 | 0 | 39 | 3.518 | 39.58 | 3.33 | 274 | 759 | 46 |
In the second half of the 2010s and after, India also produced excellent fast bowlers (Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and others) to become one of the most formidable teams in Test cricket, home and away. In the middle of the next decade, though, their home reputation took a major dent when they were whitewashed at home by New Zealand and South Africa in the space of little over a year.
| Series | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | Draw | W/L | Ave | RPO | Inns | HS | LS | Start Date | Winner | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Border-Gavaskar Trophy (Australia in India), 2008/09 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 36.8 | 3.54 | 2 | 441 | 295 | 6 Nov 2008 | India | |||
| England in India Test Series, 2008/09 | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – | 42.96 | 3.33 | 4 | 453 | 241 | 11 Dec 2008 | India | |||
| India in New Zealand Test Series, 2008/09 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – | 52.51 | 3.36 | 6 | 520 | 305 | 18 Mar 2009 | India | |||
| Sri Lanka in India Test Series, 2009/10 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – | 66.84 | 4 | 4 | 726 | 426 | 16 Nov 2009 | India | |||
| India in Bangladesh Test Series, 2009/10 | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 46.23 | 4.12 | 4 | 544 | 243 | 17 Jan 2010 | India | |||
| South Africa in India Test Series, 2009/10 | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 45.96 | 3.67 | 3 | 643 | 233 | 6 Feb 2010 | drawn | |||
| India in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2010 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 44.77 | 3.47 | 5 | 707 | 276 | 18 Jul 2010 | drawn | |||
| Border-Gavaskar Trophy (Australia in India), 2010/11 | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 41.34 | 3.7 | 4 | 495 | 405 | 1 Oct 2010 | India | |||
| New Zealand in India Test Series, 2010/11 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – | 48.92 | 3.2 | 5 | 566 | 266 | 4 Nov 2010 | India | |||
| India in South Africa Test Series, 2010/11 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 29.39 | 3.1 | 6 | 459 | 136 | 16 Dec 2010 | drawn | |||
| India in West Indies Test Series, 2011 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 24.9 | 3.18 | 2 | 252 | 246 | 20 Jun 2011 | India | |||
Back-to-back T20 World Cup champions India have now lost five T20Is in a row under newly appointed captain Shreyas Iyer.
“The BCCI is currently observing the performance of the Indian T20 team which has not been up to the mark in the ongoing series against England,” Saikia was quoted as saying by PTI. “However this is not something abnormal and can happen in international cricket. “We consider it as a purely bad phase. Once the ODI series gets over on July 19 and the team comes back, we will have a review meeting with core members of the team to discuss what went wrong in England. Since there is an ODI series, we are hoping that team will be back in good form.”
Saikia, however, made it clear that the meeting would focus solely on cricketing matters. “The review meeting will be strictly about the performance of the team and how course correction can be done with regards to shortfalls. Nothing else will be discussed.”
India’s difficult T20I campaign has featured a series of unwanted milestones, including their first-ever defeat to Ireland, a five-match losing streak in the format, and a first multi-match bilateral T20I series defeat to England.
They are also in danger of losing their No. 1 spot in the format and going winless for the first time in a bilateral T20I series of three matches or more if they lose the final T20I on Saturday in Southampton. India will play three ODIs against England on July 14, 16 and 19. They will travel to Zimbabwe after that for a three-match T20I series starting on July 23. ‘Going to make me better going forward’ – Shreyas Iyer on tough start to captaincy leader conceded they were outplayed and outfielded as they struggled with conditions in England and Ireland.
Shreyas Iyer player profile
Shreyas Iyer is an attacking top-order batter capable of marrying classical shots with brute force.
He made headlines when Delhi Daredevils bought him at the 2015 IPL auction for Rs 2.6 crore (about US$416,000). It was faith he repaid with interest: he made 439 runs that season, and won the IPL Emerging Player of the Year award. Over the next six seasons, he became a mainstay of the side and its captain, making over 400 runs a season for them four times.
Iyer came up through the Under-19 ranks, hitting back-to-back fifties in the 2014 World Cup playoffs to help India finish fifth. He made his first-class debut for Mumbai the next domestic season, and after a lukewarm stint in the middle order, was promoted to opener and finished as the team’s top run-getter with 809 runs at an average of over 50. He had a blow-out Ranji Trophy season the next year, with 1321 runs at 73, and made a century in the final, where Mumbai won their 41st title.
By then calls for Iyer to be fast-tracked into the India side had grown clamorous, but it took nearly another two years before he made his international debut, in the white-ball formats first. His first hundred for India came in an ODI against New Zealand in Hamilton in 2020, and he made a century and fifty on Test debut against the same side a little over a year and a half later, this time at home. In a Ranchi ODI in October 2022, he made a chase of 282 against South Africa look like a walk in a park with a well-paced unbeaten 113 that took India home with plenty of room to spare.
Shreyas Iyer IPL factfile
– Shreyas Iyer led Punjab Kings (PBKS) to their second final in IPL 2025 after being bought for INR 26.75 crore, which made him the second-most expensive player at an IPL auction.
– Iyer joined Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in IPL 2022 as their captain after spending his first seven IPL seasons at Delhi Capitals (DC). He missed IPL 2023 with a back injury but returned in 2024 to lead KKR to their third title.
– He was named Emerging Player of the Year for scoring 436 runs in his debut IPL season in 2015, and in 2018 he replaced Gautam Gambhir as DC captain after the season had begun. In 2019, Iyer led DC to the IPL playoffs for the first time after six years, and in 2020 he captained them to their first IPL final, where they lost to Mumbai Indians.
– Iyer missed the first half of IPL 2021 because of a shoulder injury, and when he returned for the second half of the season, DC decided to continue with Rishabh Pant as their captain. Iyer left DC at the end of that season and began his KKR career the following year.
“The BCCI is currently observing the performance of the Indian T20 team which has not been up to the mark in the ongoing series against England,” Saikia was quoted as saying by PTI. “However this is not something abnormal and can happen in international cricket. “We consider it as a purely bad phase. Once the ODI series gets over on July 19 and the team comes back, we will have a review meeting with core members of the team to discuss what went wrong in England. Since there is an ODI series, we are hoping that team will be back in good form.”
Saikia, however, made it clear that the meeting would focus solely on cricketing matters. “The review meeting will be strictly about the performance of the team and how course correction can be done with regards to shortfalls. Nothing else will be discussed.”
India’s difficult T20I campaign has featured a series of unwanted milestones, including their first-ever defeat to Ireland, a five-match losing streak in the format, and a first multi-match bilateral T20I series defeat to England.
They are also in danger of losing their No. 1 spot in the format and going winless for the first time in a bilateral T20I series of three matches or more if they lose the final T20I on Saturday in Southampton. India will play three ODIs against England on July 14, 16 and 19. They will travel to Zimbabwe after that for a three-match T20I series starting on July 23.
