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India vs Sri Lanka Live Score Updates, 1st ODI: Sri Lanka opt to bat; Suryakumar, Ishan make debuts
A bunch of fresh faces will be desperate for a fair T20 World Cup audition as India take on an unsettled Sri Lanka in the six-match limited overs contest. The tour kicks off with the ODI format which will be followed 3 T20Is. Shikhar Dhawan will be on his first assignment as the national captain. Get live cricket score updates of 1st ODI match between India and Sri Lanka. Check live scorecard, ball-by-ball commentary, cricket score online on Times of India.Read Less
Teams news!
So, a total of three debuts in todays game! Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan don the ODI caps for India while Bhanuka Rajapaksa will be representing Sri Lanka for the first time in the 50-over format. The spin duo of Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal is also back after a long time. Pandya brothers are too in the XI for India along with Manish Pandey and Deepak Chahar.
Sri Lanka XI
Avishka Fernando, Minod Bhanuka(wk), Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Dhananjaya de Silva, Charith Asalanka, Dasun Shanaka(capt), Wanindu Hasaranga, Chamika Karunaratne, Isuru Udana, Dushmantha Chameera, Lakshan Sandakan
India XI
Shikhar Dhawan(capt), Prithvi Shaw, Ishan Kishan(wk), Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Deepak Chahar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav
We were also looking to bat first as dew factor will come into play. Shaw will open along with me. Kishan and Suryakumar will make their debuts. Kuldeep and Chahal are the two spinners playing for us
India skipper Shikhar Dhawan at the toss
We are going to bat first. History suggests batting first is ideal here. We have a debutant, it's Bhanuka Rajapaksa.
Sri Lanka skipper Dasun Shanaka at the toss
Toss news
Sri Lanka skipper Dasun Shanaka wins the toss and opts to bat first against India in the first ODI.
India always have competition, there are a lot of brilliant players in the country and you have to keep scoring consistently to be on the top. It's like a family sometimes you don't score runs and you sit out. T20 is something different and ODIs you have a lot of time to assess the situation and play accordingly. I will take more time here, absolutely different in this format. It's always lovely to work under Rahul Sir, we had him as a coach for U-19 team and A team. so whatever experience he shares we are mentally prepared for it.
Prithvi Shaw
ODI debuts for Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan
Birthday boy Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav will be making their ODI debuts today. Moment of a lifetime for the pair!!! Both have been handed their ODI caps just ahead of the start of the game.
A casual catch-up between the coaches ahead of the series opener!
Sri Lanka, meanwhile, are coming off a horror tour of England and supposed to play in the qualifiers of the T20 World Cup. To make it worse, their key players — Kusal Mendis and Niroshan Dickwella — are suspended from the India series due to a breach of bio-bubble rules.
Jostling for attention with the Tokyo Olympics, the contest was delayed by five days due to multiple Covid cases in the Lankan camp.
With the Kohli-Shastri duo on Test duties in England, Shikhar Dhawan has been given the responsibility to lead the Men in Blue, with the legendary Rahul Dravid asked to take time out from his duty as the NCA head to coach the team in Sri Lanka.
Many have touted this Sri Lanka tour as the audition for the young Indian players vying for spots in the T20 World Cup a few months from now in the UAE.
It's not very often you see two Indian teams on tour simultaneously. While a limited-overs squad is in Sri Lanka for three ODIs and three T20Is, the Test team led by Virat Kohli will begin a red-ball series against England on August 4.
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A very warm welcome to the coverage of India's white-ball tour of Sri Lanka, which kicks off with the first ODI at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.