1st T20I (N), Sri Lanka tour of India at Cuttack, Dec 20 2017 | Match File | ESPNCricinfo

Toss: Sri Lanka selected to bowl v India
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Thisara Perera, the Sri Lanka captain, has chosen to bowl in the main T20I keeping in mind the chance of dew setting in later in the evening. India captain Rohit Sharma said he would possess preferred to bowl first too.

Sri Lanka made four adjustments from their XI for the 1/Three ODI: they handed a debut to the left-arm swiftly Vishwa Fernando, and introduced in the quick bowler Dushmantha Chameera, the allrounder Dasun Shanaka and Kusal Perera – who is doubtless to play as a specialist batsman with Niroshan Dickwella established in the encourage of the stumps.

They not notorious Danushka Gunathilaka, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Sachith Pathirana and Suranga Lakmal, who has been not notorious of the squad for the T20I sequence. This left them with a tempo-heavy assault, with Chameera, Fernando and Nuwan Pradeep complemented by the medium-tempo of Shanaka, Angelo Mathews and Thisara. Akila Dananjaya was as soon as their lone specialist spinner.

India made two adjustments, with KL Rahul and Jaydev Unadkat coming in for Shikhar Dhawan and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who were rested from the T20Is.

India: 1 Rohit Sharma (capt), 2 KL Rahul, Three Shreyas Iyer, four Dinesh Karthik, 5 Manish Pandey, 6 MS Dhoni (wk), 7 Hardik Pandya, eight Kuldeep Yadav, 9 Jaydev Unadkat, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, eleven Yuzvendra Chahal.

Sri Lanka: 1 Upul Tharanga, 2 Niroshan Dickwella (wk), Three Kusal Perera, four Angelo Mathews, 5 Asela Gunaratne, 6 Thisara Perera (capt), 7 Dasun Shanaka, eight Akila Dananjaya, 9 Vishwa Fernando, 10 Dushmantha Chameera, eleven Nuwan Pradeep.