1st Match (N), Nidahas Twenty20 Tri-Series at Colombo, Mar 6 2018 | Match Preview | ESPNCricinfo

Gargantuan Picture

India going into the Nidahas T20I tri-series without many of their first-choice players has reasonably levelled the playing field. Captain Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Hardik Pandya and Kuldeep Yadav like all been rested.

Sri Lanka will additionally leave out some of their key players: Angelo Mathews, Asela Gunaratne and like a flash bowler Shehan Madushanka, who bagged a hat-trick on ODI debut in Bangladesh, are unavailable via wound.

Suranga Lakmal and Nuwan Pradeep return to bolster the high-tail assault, nevertheless Sri Lanka will could well also fair level-headed be cautious of India’s powerful bench energy. Allrounders Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar and Washington Sundar, like a flash bowler Mohammed Siraj, and wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant like simplest played 5 T20Is amongst them, nevertheless are feeble to playing below tension in the IPL. Rohit Sharma, the stand-in captain, in the intervening time will leer to hit find after an underwhelming tour of South Africa. The return of Suresh Raina provides meat to the heart account for, which additionally includes Manish Pandey.

Sri Lanka will aim to originate on the gains made in the diminutive-overs series in Bangladesh. Kusal Mendis has bedded in at the head whereas Thisara Perera and Dasun Shanaka like boosted the heart account for. Akila Dananjaya, who can bowl offbreaks as smartly as legbreaks, and Isuru Udana are superior of supporting Lakmal and Thisara with the ball.

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In the highlight

After making abet-to-abet fifties in Bangladesh, Kusal Mendis repeated the feat at home in the domestic T20 tournament for Colombo Cricket Club. Can he continue his ideal find in the Nidahas Trophy?

Sri Lanka can like nightmares of Rohit Sharma, who slammed 118 off Forty three balls in the final bilateral T20 series between the 2 sides in December. In all, Rohit has hit 278 runs in eleven innings against Sri Lanka at a strike-rate of 146.31.

Team news

Kusal Perera, Suranga Lakmal and Dushmantha Chameera could well return to the XI. Having secured a thumping series buy in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka could well also fair no longer tinker too mighty with their team.

Sri Lanka (probable): 1 Kusal Mendis, 2 Danushka Gunathilaka, three Kusal Perera, four Upul Tharanga, 5 Dasun Shanaka, 6 Thisara Perera, 7 Dinesh Chandimal (capt & wk), Eight Akila Dananjaya, 9 Amila Aponso, 10 Suranga Lakmal, eleven Dushmantha Chameera

Dinesh Karthik will tussle with Pant for the wicketkeeper’s space. Yuzvendra Chahal and Jaydev Unadkat are susceptible to come abet to the XI despite being left out for the 1/three T20I in Cape Town. Sundar will compete with Hooda for the allrounder’s space, whereas KL Rahul, who hasn’t played a T20I since December 2017, could well accept a sport in the absence of key players.

India (probable): 1 Rohit Sharma (capt), 2 Shikhar Dhawan, three Suresh Raina, four KL Rahul, 5 Manish Pandey, 6 Rishabh Pant/Dinesh Karthik (wk), 7 Washington Sundar/Deepak Hooda, Eight Yuzvendra Chahal, 9 Shardul Thakur, 10 Axar Patel, eleven Jaydev Unadkat

Pitch and prerequisites

The Premadasa pitches are identified to be low and gradual, nevertheless they are susceptible to abet the like a flash bowlers at the originate of the T20I tri-series. There might be a slim probability of a thunderstorm in the night time.

Stats and trivialities

• Two of the head-ten scorers in T20 cricket honest on this tournament – Suresh Raina (7275) and Rohit Sharma (6587)

• India novice Vijay Shankar bowled offspin till he changed into 20 nevertheless switched to medium-high-tail in a account for to interrupt into his ride-heavy allege facet, Tamil Nadu

• Deepak Hooda, the other India rookie, has a strike-rate of 143.Forty eight in seventy nine T20 fits

Quotes

« We are in a position to delivery with whoever we in actuality feel will play the suitable. We will leer at the other teams’ strengths and obstacles earlier than coming to that resolution additionally. »
nSri Lanka coach Chandika Hathurusingha isn’t any longer giving something else away on team mixture

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