195/2 is the highest total of the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium scored by the home team India in 2018 against the West Indies team. Sri Lanka will play their first-ever T20I match at this venue. In the last T20I series between India and Sri Lanka, the Sri Lanka team won that series by winning two T20I matches. From 2009 to 2021 a total of 22 Twenty/20 matches has been played between these two teams. India won 14 of them and Sri Lanka got 7 victories.
The home team India will be in a lot of confidence because they have recently beaten the West Indies team. In the ODI series by 3-0 in the T20I’s again 3-0. From Sri Lankan team performance they just arrived in India, coming from Australia with five T20I’s they have played there. Sri Lanka lost four of them but in the last T20I match Sri Lanka won. So they also carry some momentum with them and also a bit of confidence. Because the Asian pitches are more friendly for both teams.
Sri Lanka have won the toss and opted to bowl.
India team: 1 Ishan Kishan, 2 Rohit Sharma, 3 Shreyas Iyer, 4 Sanju Samson, 5 Deepak Hooda, 6 Venkatesh Iyer, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Harshal Patel, 9 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal.
Sri Lanka team: 1 Pathum Nissanka, 2 Kamil Mishara, 3 Charith Asalanka, 4 Janith Liyanage, 5 Dinesh Chandimal (wk), 6 Dasun Shanaka (capt), 7 Chamika Karunaratne, 8 Dushmantha Chameera, 9 Jeffrey Vandersay, 10 Praveen Jayawickrama, 11 Lahiru Kumara.
India vs Sri Lanka 1st T20I Highlights today, Thursday 24-2-2022 – 1st T20I (N), Sri Lanka tour of India from Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow.
Form guide
Last five completed T20Is; the most recent first
India: WWWWW
Sri Lanka: WLLLL
From the Australian tour, P Nissanka was the most runs scorer of the five T20I series with 184 runs. MD Shanaka scored 116 and BKG Mendis scored 100 runs in three innings. PVD Chameera took seven wickets, PWH de Silva took five, and M Theekshana also took five wickets. From the India vs West Indies three T20I series, SA Yadav was the top runs scorer from the Indian team with 107 runs. VR Iyer scored 92 and Ishan Kishan 71. HV Patel took five wickets, Ravi Bishnoi took three and DL Chahar also took three wickets.
So it looks like the Indian top-best batsmen are not in the form like Kohli, Sharma, RR Pant. Also, the Indian bowling performance was not the best according to the Stats of their last three T20Is. Avesh Khan played one match took zero wickets. YS Chahal took two wickets in two matches like B Kumar. So here is a chance for Sri Lanka to give a good performance against India to prove their young talent.
Match Timings: 13:30 GMT | 19:00 Local
Umpires – Jayaraman Madanagopal, Virender Sharma
TV Umpires – Anil Chaudhary
Match Referee – Javagal Srinath
Reserve Umpire – KN Ananthapadmanabhan
Match number – T20I no. 1492
