Sri Lanka in India T20I Cricket Series 2016


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Sri Lanka in India T20I Cricket Series 2016

Feb 9, 12, 14, 2016

Sri Lanka to play 3 T20Is before WT20

three Twenty20 internationals.
India vs Sri Lanka T20I Cricket Series 2016

Schedule

Tuesday, Feb 9, 2016
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT
1st T20I: India vs Sri LankaPune
Friday, Feb 12, 2016
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT
2nd T20I: India vs Sri LankaRanchi
Sunday, Feb 14, 2016
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT
3rd T20I: India vs Sri LankaVisakhapatnam

India vs Sri Lanka first ever T20I series

India start their second leg of preparation for the ICC World Twenty20 from Tuesday, Feb 9th, with a three-match T20 series against neighbours Sri Lanka. It is the first-ever T20 series between the two teams. In six years since they started playing T20 matches, there have only been 6 matches between the teams with India and Sri Lanka winning three each. The last encounter was in the 2014 World T20 Final in Mirpur, Bangladesh in which Sri Lanka beat India to lift their maiden WT20 final.

T20I Squads

India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Manish Pandey, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Ashish Nehra, Harbhajan Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Pawan Negi.

Sri Lanka: Dinesh Chandimal (Captain), Seekuge Prasanna, Milinda Siriwardana, Danushka Gunathilaka, Thisara Perera, Dasun Shanaka, Asela Gunaratne, Chamara Kapugedera, Dushmantha Chameera, Dilhara Fernando, Kasun Rajitha, Binura Fernando, Sachithra Senanayake, Jeffrey Vandersay, Niroshan Dickwella.

1st T20I: India vs Sri Lanka

Pune T20I



Pune T20I: Sri Lanka 105/5 (18 ov) beat India 101 all out in 18.5 ov (Ashwin 31*, Rajitha 3-29, Shanaka 3-16) by 5 wickets

2nd T20I: India vs Sri Lanka

Ranchi T20I



Ranchi T20I:

3rd T20I: India vs Sri Lanka

Visakhapatnam T20I



Visakhapatnam T20I:


Editor: Nishanth Gopinathan.