India vs England 3rd T20I: The Men in Blue on Tuesday suffered their biggest T20I defeat after an all-round England thrashed Team India by 125 runs, taking an unassailable 2-0 lead in the 5-match T20I series. Yesterday's loss was India's fourth consecutive defeat in the last five T20Is, a rare thing to expect from the World Champions.

Chasing a target of 202, Team India crumbled to 76 all out in just 11.4 overs. Youngster Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Ishan Kishan top-scored with a meagre 13 runs each, as no other batter managed to cross the 10-run mark. The bowling unit also struggled to find its rhythm, with only Prince Yadav and Arshdeep Singh managing to keep their economy rates under 10 runs per over.

Reacting to the humiliating loss, skipper Shreyas Iyer described the team's performance in one word, calling it "atrocious". Iyer said that dwelling on failures would be of no use and that players need to focus on how they can bounce back. "It was atrocious, losing by that margin is not acceptable. First things first, we have to accept the loss and go back to the drawing board," Iyer said at the post-match presentation ceremony.

The newly appointed skipper, under whom Team India is yet to win a match, felt that the bowling unit shouldn't have gone for 200 on this Trent Bridge track. "I don't think it was a 200-wicket. We lost four wickets in the powerplay, and that itself pushed us back. You can plan a lot but once you come to the ground you need to adapt," he said.

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"Try to figure out what is the right length. I felt the hard length was tough (to hit) and we didn't execute. We need to comeback strong and not dwell too much about the past. Every individual has to think and see how they can contribute to the team," the skipper added.

'Reset Takes A Bit Of Time': Gautam Gambhir On India's Defeat

India head coach Gautam Gambhir, although, backed his team but said that the horrendous run in the ongoing UK tour is due to "an acute lack of game awareness and failure to read the conditions correctly." "We just haven't played well," Gambhir said at the post-match press conference.

The head coach, however, pointed out that the Indian squad is in a transition following a "reset" in the leadership and said that it takes a bit of time to settle down. "There are a lot of changes from the XI that played the T20 World Cup final to now. Be it the captain, be it the opening batsman. There is no Hardik Pandya, there is no Jasprit Bumrah," Gambhir said.

"When you go for that reset, it takes a bit of time. If you see, a 15-year-old (Vaibhav Sooryavanshi) is opening, Prince Yadav is in his second T20I, Harshit Rana is coming back from an injury. We ultimately look only at results, and no doubt results are important in international cricket, but we have to be practical as well," the head coach added.

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Gambhir insisted that despite multiple setbacks, India does not become a bad team in a matter of four games. "Sometimes the opposition plays better than you. Sometimes you don't assess the conditions well enough, and you don't read them well enough. Reading the game is equally important. We haven't done that since Ireland," he said.

"We haven't adapted well. Whether it was in Ireland or here in England, that has been the reality. Had we adapted better and played better cricket, we wouldn't have lost four matches in a row," Gambhir added.