Toss Sri Lanka elected to bowl v India
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Sri Lanka captain Thisara Perera won yet another toss, and elected to bowl in the second T20I against India in Indore. Perera said he felt the short boundaries at the Holkar Stadium would lend better to a chase.
In fact, Sri Lanka’s line-up itself seemed to be designed for a chase following a 93-run loss in the previous game. They left out Vishwa Fernando, Nuwan Pradeep and Dasun Shanaka – all seamers – to bring in batsmen Sadeera Samarawickrama and Danushka Gunathilaka, along with allrounder Chaturanga de Silva.
India made no changes to their XI.
India: 1 Rohit Sharma (capt), 2 KL Rahul, 3 Shreyas Iyer, 4 Dinesh Karthik, 5 Manish Pandey, 6 MS Dhoni (wk), 7 Hardik Pandya, 8 Kuldeep Yadav, 9 Jaydev Unadkat, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal
Sri Lanka: 1 Upul Tharanga, 2 Danushka Gunathilaka, 3 Kusal Perera, 4 Angelo Mathews, 5 Asela Gunaratne, 6 Niroshan Dickwella (wk) 7 Thisara Perera (capt), 8 Sadeera Samarawickrama 9 Chaturanga de Silva, 10 Akila Dananjaya, 11 Dushmantha Chameera
Varun Shetty is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
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