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India vs Sri Lanka Scorecard, 1st T20I, Sri Lanka vs India 2021
Result · Jul 25 2021, Sun - 08:00 PM (IST)
INDIA164/5
SRI LANKA126
India won by 38 runs
CRR:6.81
Match Info
| Series: | India in Sri Lanka 2021 |
| Date: | Jul 25 2021, Sun - 08:00 PM (IST) |
| Country: | Sri Lanka |
| City: | Colombo |
| Venue: | R. Premadasa Stadium |
| Toss: | Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| Sri Lanka Playing XI: | Avishka Fernando, Minod Bhanuka (wk), Dhananjaya de Silva, Charith Asalanka, Dasun Shanaka (c), Ashen Bandara, Wanindu Hasaranga, Chamika Karunaratne, Isuru Udana, Akila Dananjaya, Dushmantha Chameera |
| India Playing XI: | Shikhar Dhawan (c), Prithvi Shaw, Ishan Kishan (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Sanju Samson, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Deepak Chahar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Varun Chakravarthy |
- India are unbeaten against Sri Lanka in multigame bilateral men's T20I series (W3 D1); India have beaten Sri Lanka in each of the last three such series with the most recent meeting being in January 2020.
- Sri Lanka have one win from their last 11 completed men's T20I matches against India (L10); this lone win was achieved in March 2018 when the Lions beat the Men in Blue by five wickets at the very same venue this match is being played.
- Sri Lanka have one win from their last 13 completed men's T20I matches (L12); this win came against West Indies earlier this year in March in the Caribbean.
- India have the chance to record their most consecutive multigame bilateral series wins in men's T20Is; they are currently on a six series winning streak, they had a similar run in such series between 2017-18.
- Sri Lanka have one win from their last five men's T20I matches at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo (L4), that victory coming against South Africa in August 2018; India have won 10 of their 12 matches at this ground in this format (L2).
- Sri Lanka have hit a boundary once every 7.7 balls faced in the powerplay overs since the beginning of 2020 in men's T20I matches, the worst rate for any team in that period; India have the third slowest rate, taking 5.6 balls for every boundary.
- Since the beginning of 2020, only 43% of the runs scored by Sri Lanka in men's T20I matches have come via boundaries, the lowest rate for any team in that period.
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar needs five wickets to reach 50 men's T20I wickets for India, he will become the fourth player to achieve this feat for his country, he has one five wicket haul to his name in T20I cricket, taking 5/24 against South Africa in 2018.
- Dasun Shanaka has a batting dot ball rate of 48% in men's T20I matches since the beginning of 2020, only two players have a higher rate than the Sri Lankan player (Chris Gayle - 53% and Andre Fletcher - 51%, 100+ balls faced); his rate of a boundary every 11.1 balls faced is the slowest of any batter in that period.
- No bowler has a better dot ball rate (48%) than India's Bhuvneshwar Kumar in men's T20I cricket since the beginning of 2020 (100+ balls bowled); Dushmantha Chameera of Sri Lanka is second-best at 46%.
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