Toss: Sri Lanka chose to bat v India
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Upul Tharanga, returning to lead Sri Lanka after serving a two-match over-rate suspension, chose to bat first after rain delayed the toss by 40 minutes in Colombo. Virat Kohli, India’s captain, said he would have preferred to bat as well, on the same pitch that was used for the fourth ODI on Thursday.
Sri Lanka made only one change to their XI from that match, with Tharanga replacing Kusal Mendis.
India, meanwhile, made four changes, with Ajinkya Rahane opening the batting in place of Shikhar Dhawan, who has returned to India to attend to his ailing mother, Kedar Jadhav replacing KL Rahul in the middle order, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Yuzvendra Chahal coming in for Hardik Pandya and Axar Patel.
With the allrounder Pandya out of the side, India are fielding a combination with six batsmen and five specialist bowlers for the first time in the series.
Sri Lanka: 1 Niroshan Dickwella (wk), 2 Dilshan Munaweera, 3 Upul Tharanga (capt), 4 Lahiru Thirimanne, 5 Angelo Mathews, 6 Milinda Siriwardana, 7 Wanindu Hasaranga, 8 Akila Dananjaya, 9 Malinda Pushpakumara, 10 Vishwa Fernando, 11 Lasith Malinga.
India: 1 Ajinkya Rahane, 2 Rohit Sharma, 3 Virat Kohli (capt), 4 Manish Pandey, 5 MS Dhoni (wk), 6 Kedar Jadhav, 7 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 8 Kuldeep Yadav, 9 Shardul Thakur, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal.
Karthik Krishnaswamy is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
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