Published on: Feb 24, 2022 5:00 pm IST|Updated on: Feb 24, 2022 5:06 pm IST
India vs Sri Lanka Dream11 Prediction: Hosts India will be facing Sri Lanka in a three-match T20I series and the first T20I game is scheduled to be played at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on 24 February. Team India recently defeated West Indies at home in both the ODI and T20I series by winning all the six limited-overs matches. On the other hand, Sri Lanka did not had the best of forms conceding a poor 1-4 T20I series loss at the hands of Australia.
Fixture Name: 1st T20I, India vs Sri Lanka
Competition: India vs Sri Lanka T20I
Date: 24 February
Time: 7 PM IST
Ground: Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow
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The pitch at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium will once again provide favourable conditions for the batters throughout the T20I match. Due to the late winter climate in the Indian conditions, the dew factor will once again play an important role. Therefore, picking more of batters from both India and Sri Lanka will be a good option from the fantasy point of view.
Team Form Guide: IND (recent last): W W W W W SL (recent last): W L L L L
Ishan Kishan Ruturaj Gaikwad Rohit Sharma Shreyas Iyer Sanju Samson Venkatesh Iyer Ravindra Jadeja Bhuvneshwar Kumar Harshal Patel Yuzvendra Chahal Jasprit Bumrah
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Rohit Sharma Stats vs Sri Lanka in T20I
Team India skipper Rohit Sharma has performed impressively well in the shortest format of the game in the recent while. Rohit Sharma also has an excellent T20I record against Sri Lanka having scored close to 300 runs from just 13 matches that includes a century as well.
Yuzvendra Chahal Stats in T20I
For India, leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal has been a key wicket-taking asset in the limited-overs formats of the game over the years. Yuzvendra Chahal has taken a total of 6 wickets in his last 3 white-ball games.
Shreyas Iyer Stats in T20I
For India, Shreyas Iyer will be an important player to watch out for in this T20I series against Sri Lanka especially in the absence of some first-choice players. During the recent concluded home series against the Windies team, Shreyas finally came back in form with a fabulous innings of 80 runs that consisted of as many as 9 boundaries in the 3rd ODI game.
Danushka Gunathilaka Pathum Nissanka Kamil Mishara Dinesh Chandimal Charith Asalanka Dasun Shanaka Chamika Karunaratne Jeffrey Vandersay Praveen Jayawickrama Dushmantha Chameera Lahiru Kumara
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Pathum Nissanka Stats in T20I
For Sri Lanka, opening batsman Pathum Nissanka has delivered a lot of crucial performances at the top of the order in his short T20I career. Nissanka contributed with a brilliant knock of 73 runs off 53 balls that included 7 fours and 2 sixes in the 2nd T20I against Australia.
Dinesh Chandimal Stats in T20I
Sri Lanka’s senior wicket-keeper batsman Dinesh Chandimal will be a vital player for the visitors in this India tour due to his loads of experience at the international level. Chandimal has scored more than 1000 T20I runs from 65 games that comprises of as many as 6 half-centuries.
Dushmantha Chameera Stats in T20I
For Sri Lanka, right-arm speedster Dushmantha Chameera has been an important wicket-taking asset in the limited-overs format of the game. Dushmantha Chameera has picked up as many as 45 T20I wickets at an economy of less than 8.
According to the India vs Sri Lanka today match prediction, India are the favourites to win this match.
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Grand League Team 1
We are picking Rohit Sharma as the Captain of this fantasy cricket team due to his amazing overall T20I record against Sri Lanka.
WICKET-KEEPERS: Ishan Kishan, Dinesh Chandimal BATSMEN: Rohit Sharma (C), Shreyas Iyer, Pathum Nissanka, Charith Asalanka (VC) ALL-ROUNDERS: Ravindra Jadeja BOWLERS: Harshal Patel, Dushmantha Chameera, Jasprit Bumrah, Yuzvendra Chahal
Grand League Team 2
We are making Pathum Nissanka as the Captain of this fantasy team as he scored a brilliant half-century during the previous T20I series against Australia.
WICKET-KEEPERS: Ishan Kishan, Sanju Samson (VC) BATSMEN: Rohit Sharma, Shreyas Iyer, Pathum Nissanka (C) ALL-ROUNDERS: Ravindra Jadeja, Dasun Shanaka BOWLERS: Dushmantha Chameera, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Praveen Jayawickrama
Grand League Team 3
We are selecting Shreyas Iyer as the Captain of this team because he smacked a sensational knock of 80 runs in the 3rd ODI against West Indies.
WICKET-KEEPERS: Dinesh Chandimal, Sanju Samson BATSMEN: Shreyas Iyer (C), Charith Asalanka, Danushka Gunathilaka, Ruturaj Gaikwad ALL-ROUNDERS: Venkatesh Iyer BOWLERS: Harshal Patel (VC), Dushmantha Chameera, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ravi Bishnoi
Grand League Team 4
We are picking Harshal Patel as the Captain in this fantasy team due to his sensational wicket-taking ability in T20I cricket.
WICKET-KEEPERS: Ishan Kishan, Sanju Samson BATSMEN: Rohit Sharma (VC), Shreyas Iyer, Pathum Nissanka, Ruturaj Gaikwad ALL-ROUNDERS: Dasun Shanaka BOWLERS: Harshal Patel (C), Dushmantha Chameera, Jasprit Bumrah, Jeffrey Vandersay
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