India v/s Sri Lanka, T20 Preview: Virat Kohli and Co eye historic 9-0 clean sweep
India would aim to cap off their super successful Sri Lanka tour with another ruthless victory in the one-off T20 International in Colombo on Wednesday.
Any result other than India’s resounding win looks highly unlikely on Wednesday, considering the visitors’ rampaging run in the preceding Test and ODI series, where they whitewashed the hosts 3-0 and 5-0 respectively. The game provides Team India an opportunity to fine-tune their team combination ahead of the upcoming home T20 series against Australia and New Zealand.
In total, India would play nine T20 Internationals this home season and all contests will be a three-match series. India are on an experimentation drive ahead of the 2019 50-over World Cup and one name they could have tried here is Rishabh Pant, who was not named in the squad.
It is all the more surprising since the selectors had an opportunity to send him for this stand-alone game when Shikhar Dhawan returned home to tend to his ailing mother this past weekend, leaving Ajinkya Rahane to open the innings in the fifth ODI.
Pant has previously featured in two T20Is against England and West Indies, but was kept out of this tour on account of his poor run for India-A in …read more