'It Will Definitely Not Change': Shreyas Iyer On India's New Batting Approach

Virat Kohli's India got a rude awakening in the first T20 International against England after their batting, which was expected to present a new, power-packed approach, failed to get going. India

Kohli had a day before the match pointed out that the team will change its batting philosophy and the innings will not revolve around one batsman. Instead, he said, it will have power-hitting batsmen hitting out from the word go.

Iyer, however, was forced to follow the old model and bat till the 20th over after coming in at the start of the sixth over with India three wickets down. The right-handed batsman made a 48-ball 67 and held together the innings which could see no other major contribution.

"Coming into the Indian team, you have to be very flexible with in terms of your batting position. To be honest, I haven't made any changes. It is just the mindset -- what number you go in, what the team requires and I just bat out the situation. Today was obviously a challenging condition," added Iyer.

"It was a challenging situation, we had to keep playing natural game and keep ticking scoreboard irrespective of losing early wickets."