India vs Sri Lanka: India vs Sri Lanka 1st ODI might be performed on July 18, Sunday on the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. Within the absence of senior gamers like Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, the Indian cricket staff led by senior opener Shikhar Dhawan wish to begin India’s tour of Sri Lanka with a win.
Underneath the captaincy of opener Shikhar Dhawan, younger Indian gamers might be decided to carry out properly within the first ODI towards Sri Lanka immediately in view of the T20 World Cup to be held within the United Arab Emirates and Oman in October-November this yr.
India’s senior staff is at present on a tour of England, the place they must play a five-Take a look at sequence towards the host staff. The Sri Lankan staff, which has held the document of most losses in ODI cricket, is consistently struggling in worldwide cricket as England just lately attained a whitewash towards Sri Lanka in ODIs and T20 sequence.
Group India has been fully dominating Sri Lanka in each format in the previous couple of years and beneath the captaincy of Dhawan, a ‘second-string’ Indian staff wish to enhance this document additional.
Then again, Sri Lanka will goal to finish the 24-year wait towards India as they received the final ODI sequence towards India within the yr 1997 beneath World Cup winner Arjuna Ranatunga’s captaincy.