India whitewash shambolic Sri Lanka in ODI series

Throughout the ODI series, Sri Lanka looked a flawed team, thanks to uncontrollable hassles that only downed their morale.

With the allrounder Pandya out of the side, India are fielding a combination with six batsmen and five specialist bowlers for the first time in the series. A third T20 match will be played in Lahore, Pakistan subject to security clearance, the official said. This is his eight century against Sri Lanka and 19 while chasing down a total. Read Also: Our confidence is really down: Sri Lanka batting coach The good thing about Yadav, as he himself said a few days back, is that he doesn’t want to be a one-trick pony.He doesn’t just want to sit back on the novelty of his action. This match is struggling for consistency alongside the stability with players coming in and out. “It is not about who is sitting out and who is playing, but it is about focusing on a very big tournament”. So, I was confident about myself and obviously it was a great feeling if you take wickets for your team and help the team to win wearing the India jersey.

Kohli does like to field leg-spinners in the shortest format, and he played both Yuzvendra Chahal and Amit Mishra against England at both Nagpur and Bengaluru.

This is the second successive ODI series defeat for the Lankan team. In the bowling department, pacers Jasprit Bumrah and Shardul Thakur, along with the young left-arm spin duo of Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel, will once again aim to shatter the inexperienced home batting line-up. Last time India witnessed whitewash in the overseas. “We need to collect more singles and we also need at least one of the top five batsmen to bat at least till the 40th over”. But they would be able to address those only after facing a ruthless Indian team in the remaining two matches of the tour. Perera and Gunaratne were ruled out even before the start of the series, while Gunathilaka suffered a shoulder injury during the second game. Since 2009, the only worldwide team to visit Pakistan is Zimbabwe, who played five limited-overs games in Lahore in 2015. It will give them an opportunity to prove their strength.

In contrast to the hosts, Virat Kohli’s men have thoroughly enjoyed the last few weeks.

“We feel that he (Kusal Mendis) is mentally weak and the technical aspects also matters”. With this, Dhoni surpassed the former Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara, who had 99 stumpings in 404 ODI matches.

“MS Dhoni is a massive influence on the team. So it is MS Dhoni’s performances matter” – Ravi Shastri, India’s head coach.

Middle order batsman Lahiru Thirimanne and Angelo Mathews made half centuries to take the side to a comfortable position by the 30th over.