Pitch Report (R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo)

The pitch at Colombo will be a balanced one. We’ve seen some help for the pacers initially with the new ball & then the batters come into play. Batters, once set, can play their shots. The spinners will get ample help throughout the game. The average first innings score here in ODIs (2023 ) is 268 runs. Teams batting first have won 58 % of the games played here.

Dependable Trio for D3

Mohammad Siraj (India): Mohammad Siraj averages 14.2 & has a strike· rate of 17.4 in ODIs this year. He has picked up 22 wickets in 8 matches at an economy of just 4.90. Siraj can be lethal with the new ball and can pick up a few wickets upfront. He is equally good with the old ball as well towards the end of the innings. 

Virender Sehwag (OG- Batter 1) (India) [Captain]: R Sharma will be Batter 1 for India. He has 2 fifties in the last two games and has been in excellent form. Sharma has an exceptional record against Sri Lanka in ODIs - 1807 runs at an average of 46.30 including 6 fifties and 6 hundreds. Virender Sehwag’s OG card will be our captain pick for this game.

Dasun Shanaka (Sri Lanka): Dasun Shanaka loves playing against India. He is averaging 60.5 with the bat in 3 ODIs against India. He bowled his full quota in the last game and picked up 3 wickets. Shanaka will be a key player for Sri Lanka and a good differential pick in D3. 

Alternative Combinations

• Combination 1

Zaheer Khan (OG — Bowler 1)

Anil Kumble (OG — Bowler 4) (Captain)

Maheesh Theekshana

• Combination 2

Dunith Wellalage

Matheesha Pathirana (Captain)

KL Rahul

Probable Playing XIs

India: Rohit Sharma ©, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer/KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur/Mohammad Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammad Siraj

Sri Lanka: Pathum Nissanka, Dimuth Karunaratne, Kusal Mendis (wk), Sadeera Samarawickrama, Charith Asalanka, Dhananjaya de Silva, Dasun Shanaka, Dunith Wellalage, Maheesh Theekshana, Kasun Rajitha, Matheesha Pathirana

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