*Official* India tour of Sri Lanka

[Noumenon]

This is happening. 3 ODIs followed by 3 T20s.

India Squad

Shikhar Dhawan (capt), Bhuvneshwar Kumar (vice-capt), Prithvi Shaw, Devdutt Padikkal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Suryakumar Yadav, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Nitish Rana, Ishan Kishan (wk), Sanju Samson (wk), Yuzvendra Chahal, Rahul Chahar, K Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Deepak Chahar, Navdeep Saini, Chetan Sakariya

Does that look too large for a short, sharp series? Because that's not all. Here is the list of net bowlers for the series.

Ishan Porel, Sandeep Warrier, Arshdeep Singh, R Sai Kishore, Simarjeet Singh

SL squad TBA.

Itinerary

ODIs scheduled on 13th, 16th, and 18th of July.

T20s on 21st, 23rd, and 25th of July.

 

[honestbharani]

If India can channel the spirt of the past Nidahas Trophies, this will be fun.

 

[Noumenon]

If India can channel the spirt of the past Nidahas Trophies, this will be fun.

Really looking forward to this. I fear the monsoon though.

 

[Noumenon]

Dhawan
Shaw
Surya
Samson
Ishan
Hardik
Krunal
RChahar
DChahar
Bhuvi
Varun C/Chahal

Preferred XI for T20s.

 

[honestbharani]

Dont like too many keepers there, Manish for Samson AFAIC. Not sold on Krunal also but we did not take Tewatia who would have been the ideal #7 there. Also D Chahar and Bhuvi are both better with the bat than R Chahar.

EDIT: Juz saw this was for T20s. Then your batting line up is fine.

 

[Daemon]

Tewatia still dropped for fitness reasons then?

This is make or break for KulCha imo. If they can't even do well against SL there's no hope left.

 

[Apex Predator]

Last T20Is before T20 WC. In my view Rahul Chahar should be the lead spinner in T20I.
Chahal & Kuldeep should be rotated in ODIs.
Surprised that they didn't pick a genuine quick in Tyagi. Saini has been off color for a while & Tyagi seems better option than him.

Big squad for a small series. 5 T20I would have been ideal here.

 

[Migara]

It is damp out here. Monsoon had been extremely strong this year. Colombo in last month has had nearly 1000mm of rainfall compared to 450mm in average,

 

[Noumenon]

Will gladly choose Colombo in peak monsoon.

 

[Himannv]

I hope all the games get called off due to rain (unless we're playing well).

 

[sunilz]

Oh dear?

 

[honestbharani]

Y reschedule though? They should try to do what England did.

 

[Daemon]

Y reschedule though? They should try to do what England did.

Shanaka is the ODI captain. I shudder to imagine what the B team looks like.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

postponed by five days https://www.hindustantimes.com/cric...-to-be-played-on-july-18-101625904743568.html

 

[honestbharani]

Player from alternative Sri Lanka squad for India series tests Covid-19 positive

Said player and the visiting India squad are staying at different hotels

www.espncricinfo.com

Not looking good.

 

[cnerd123]

So this is underway. SL batting first. This side is basically India A, but it's not too bad.

 

[honestbharani]

Would have preferred to see Saini play ahead of Chahar... The seamers are very samey this game.

 

[Starfighter]

The SLCB bailout tour.

 

[slippy888]

What the logic to the sri lanka batting here surely you have to rotate strike more rather than using up balls

 

[slippy888]

Sri lanka going to end up with 240 score if they keep batting in this negative manner