Ireland stunned India on Sunday in Belfast, sealing a one-run victory in the second T20I to complete a historic 2-0 clean sweep. Ireland had already created history with their maiden T20 win against India in the opening game, and now they returned with another fearless performance to claim the series. That was also India's first T20 bilateral series defeat since 2023. Ireland, asked to bat, posted a total of 154/8 in 20 overs. In their chase, India went down surprisingly, being restricted to 153/9 in 20 overs. Following the defeat, Indian assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate expressed surprise over India's defeat, highlighting how the men in blue were outsmarted.

"There's a little bit of disbelief. It's also very hard to be critical of guys who have just won a World Cup. We've been outdone or outsmarted by a team who just did the basics very well," ten Doeschate said at the press conference.

"So firstly, credit to Ireland, and secondly, the learnings for us in terms of being able to adapt to different conditions. That's probably the biggest takeaway from this. The guys really know how to play in India. This is a good lesson in the fact that we're going to have to adapt and play slightly differently when we go to different countries and play against different teams."

The biggest reason behind India's failure has been their inability to adapt to the conditions. 

"I think it was a big factor. That was essentially our undoing. It's things we spoke about before, but we just didn't address it well enough out in the middle. I think the big thing was the wind. Again, absolutely no excuses, but when presented with a different challenge we have to find solutions of playing in a different manner, in a better manner. I thought Ireland did that very well with the ball. They never let us hit straight. In two matches, I think we hit two straight sixes. They were both off the spinner. They just did the basics really well and we couldn't combat that."

"We're probably too used to a sort of a tempo and style where you can hit sixes more freely. I think this will be the case when you go to England as well, you know, maybe slightly quicker wickets, maybe slightly less wind, but we're going to have to adapt and be a lot smarter about how we'd like to play if we're going to get wins there," he said.