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SL vs IND Series: The first match of the three-match T20 series between India and Sri Lanka will start on July 27 (Saturday) at Pallakala. Today's first T20 match will be played from 7.30 pm Indian time. Sri Lanka will make many records in a single series! Interestingly, both the teams will be led by new captains. Not only this, the coaches of both the teams are also new. India's two-time World Cup winner Gautam Gambhir will start his career as the head coach, while Suryakumar Yadav will start his new innings as captain in this short format.
This T20 series is very important for the Indian team. With Rahul Dravid as the head coach, the Indian men's team reached the finals of the World Test Championship 2021-23, Cricket World Cup 2023 and finished runners-up, while also winning the T20 World Cup 2024. The responsibility of taking the team from world champion level to the best team in the world in every format rests on the shoulders of the new head coach Gambhir.
However, on the other hand, the Sri Lankan team is also going through a phase of change and is eager to face India. Apparently, five new things will be seen in this T20 series between India and Sri Lanka.
New captains in both teams:
With the victory of T20 World Cup 2024, two veterans of India, Rohit and Kohli, have said goodbye to this format. India's T20 captain Rohit Sharma has retired from T20 International. Therefore, Suryakumar Yadav has been made the captain of the Indian team for the T20 series against Sri Lanka. On the other hand, the Sri Lankan team has appointed all-rounder Charith Asalanka as the captain for the T20 series. All-rounder Wanindu Hasaranga left the captaincy of Sri Lanka's T20 team due to poor performance in the T20 World Cup 2024.
New coaches in both teams:
With the end of the T20 World Cup 2024, Rahul Dravid's tenure has also ended. After Dravid, Gautam Gambhir has become the head coach of the Indian team and this is his first Test. On the other hand, the Sri Lankan Cricket Board (SLC) has appointed former opener Sanath Jayasuriya as the interim coach of its team. Jayasuriya will hold this position till Sri Lanka's tour of England in August-September.
With the victory in the T20 World Cup 2024, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma bid farewell to the shortest format of cricket. Both these great players will continue to represent India in ODI and Test cricket. The Indian team has reached Sri Lanka for the first time after Kohli-Rohit's retirement from T20 International.
3 T20 matches on the same ground
This is the first time on the Sri Lanka tour that the Indian team will play all the matches of the T20 series at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium. Earlier, a T20 match was played between India and Sri Lanka on this ground on 7 August 2012. In which the Indian team won by 39 runs.
India's first series against Sri Lanka as T20 champion
The Indian team is going to play a multi-match T20 series against Sri Lanka as the T20 World Champion. Earlier, the first T20 match between India and Sri Lanka was played on 10 February 2009, in which India won by three wickets. Even then the Indian team was the world champion in T20.
India's T20 team for Sri Lanka tour
- Suryakumar Yadav (captain)
- Shubman Gill (Vice-Captain)
- Yashasvi Jaiswal
- Rinku Singh
- ryan pollen
- Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper)
- Sanju Samson(Wicketkeeper)
- hardik pandya
- shivam dubey
- Axar Patel
- Washington Sundar
- Ravi Bishnoi
- Arshdeep Singh
- Khalil Ahmed
- mohammed siraj
Sri Lanka's 16-member T20 squad
- Charith Asalanka (Captain)
- Pathum Nissanka
- Kusal Perera(wicketkeeper)
- Avishka Fernando
- Kusal Mendis
- Dinesh Chandimal (wicketkeeper)
- Kamindu Mendis
- Dasun Shanaka (Dasun Shanaka)
- Wanindu Hasaranga
- Dunith Village
- Mahesh Theekshana
- Chamindu Wickramasinghe
- Matheesha Pathirana
- Dilshan Madushanka (Dilshan Madushanka)
- Asitha Fernando
- B Noora Fernando
India-Sri Lanka schedule
- July 27 – 1st T20, Pallekele
- July 28 – 2nd T20, Pallekele
- July 30 – 3rd T20, (Pallekele)
- Aug 2 – 1st ODI, Colombo
- Aug 4 – 2nd ODI, Colombo