‘We’re too used to hitting sixes’: India coach not fond of 2-0 Ireland humiliation

India assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate admitted the dressing room was left in “disbelief” after the World T20 champions suffered a 2-0 series defeat to Ireland, saying the visitors were “outmatched and outsmarted” as they failed to adapt to the conditions.After losing the opening T20I by 34 runs, India went down by one run in the second match on Sunday to give Ireland their first ever T20I series victory over India.“I think there’s a bit of disbelief, we’ve just won the World Cup. We’ve been outplayed, outplayed by a team that did their basics very well. Credit to Ireland firstly and secondly to us (it’s) a lesson in terms of being able to adapt to different conditions and against different teams, and that’s the biggest takeaway from this series,” Ten Doeschate told the post-match press conference.The former Dutch international said that India did not understand the playing conditions well, with the strong wind playing a key role.“I think that (the conditions) was a big factor, I think that was basically what was our downfall…we just didn’t handle them well enough. The wind was a big thing, but there are absolutely no excuses. We have to find solutions to different challenges in a different way.”“Ireland did their fundamentals really well and we couldn’t fight it. We’re probably too used to the pace style where you can catch sixes more loosely. We have to be a lot smarter in those conditions,” he added.Ten Doeschate felt the Indian bowlers adapted better in the second match by restricting Ireland to 154 for 8, but said the batting unit could not make the same adjustments.“I think we set up really well as a bowling unit today. We played a lot smarter and that probably reflected in the score they got on the board today. But again both seamers and spinners were fantastic with the ball and that reflected in the economy of pace.“Their pitchers went under seven and we have to learn from that. We need to adapt quicker, we want guys to make those adjustments much quicker,” he said.India lost early wickets during the chase but Ten Doeschate said the power-play team would not give up its attacking approach.“I think that’s been a strong part of the team the last 3-4 years. We’re really trying to dominate the power play. We want to get the balance right…obviously when you go down two goals in the power play with no score on the board, it puts a lot of pressure on the middle order.”“I’m definitely going to be very careful when I say, let’s be very careful going forward, that’s not the way we want to play. We want to take better chances and give ourselves a better chance to dominate the power play.”India will now travel to England to play five T20Is and three ODIs, with the series starting on July 1 in Chester-le-Street.