SL vs IND Dream11: A professional performance in the first T20I enabled Team India to overcome spirited resilience from Sri Lanka. The hosts understood the conditions better and had put Team India under immense pressure. However, the experience of playing high-voltage games helped Team India to shut Sri Lanka’s fight. Now the visitors will be keen to pocket the series in the second game itself while SL will look to improve on their last show. India will make lots of changes in the playing XI as Krunal Pandya has been affected with Covid and few other players who were in close contact with him are in isolation. As per reports, Deeepak Chahar, Manish Pandey, Pandya brothers, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan are unavailable for this match. This means Shikhar Dhawan, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson and Nitish Rana will form India’s batting line-up. In the bowling department, the management has brought in net bowlers Ishan Porel, Sandeep Warrier, Arshdeep Singh, Sai Kishore and Simarjeet Singh in the squad.
Fixture: Sri Lanka vs India, 2nd T20I
When: July 28, 2021. at 8:00 PM IST
Venue: R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
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Form Guide:
SL: LLLLW
IND: WWWLW
Avishka Fernando,
Minod Bhanuka
Dhananjaya de Silva
Charith Asalanka,
Ashen Bandara
Dasun Shanaka,
Wanindu Hasaranga
Chamika Karunaratne
Isuru Udana,
Akila Dananjaya,
Dushmantha Chameera
C Asalanka stats : He was phenomenal in the previous game. On his T20I debut, he scored 44 runs off 26 balls and kept SL in the chase till the 15th over. He has made 523 runs in 25 T20 innings and averages 24.90. He is a decent striker of the ball and has a strike-rate of 130.09.
Wanindu Hasaranga stats: SL spinner has made a big impact in this series so far. He picked 2 wickets for 28 runs in the last game in 4 overs. He has 28 wickets in 20 T20I games. He is a genuine wicket-taker and picks a wicket every 13.80 balls. He averages 15.64 per wicket and be expected to make another big impact in this SL vs IND dream11 contest.
R Gaikwad
Shikhar Dhawan
D Padikkal
N Rana
S Samson
K Gowtham
B Kumar
Y Chahal
Ishan Porel
Sandeep Warrier
Arshdeep Singh
Suryakumar Yadav Stats: The middle-order batsman is making every opportunity count in this series. He made 124 runs in 3 games in the ODI series at an average of 62.00 and now he started the T20I series with a match-winning knock of 50 runs off 34 balls. He has had a tremendous start to his T20I career. He has made 139 runs in 3 innings at a strike-rate of 169.51 and averages 46.33.
Deepak Chahar Stats: The Indian pacer had a good time in the last game. He picked 2 wickets for 24 runs in 3 overs. He has claimed 20 wickets in 14 T20I games so far at a strike rate of 15.20 and averages 19.30. He is a decent performer with the bat and has made 265 runs in 41 T20 innings at a strike rate of 125.00.
Venue stats (T20I) :
Total Matches Played: 37
Average first innings total: 157
Average second innings total: 138
Matches won by Team batting first: 19
Matches won by Team batting second: 18
In SL vs IND Dream11 match prediction, India showed great game awareness to close the first game. That shows the difference between the two sides in terms of preparedness. SL has the spark but this Indian team is more experienced and has the smartness to win key moments. So expect IND to win this game.
Wicket-keepers: S Samson
Batsmen: D Shanaka, C Asalanka, R Gaikwad,S Dhawan(C),
All-rounders: W Hasaranga, K Gowtham
Bowlers: Dushmantha Chameera, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Y Chahal
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