Pune: Sri Lanka have won the toss and will bowl first in the third and final T20I against India on Friday at Pune’s Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium.
India will be looking forward to clinching the series as the hosts are leading with 1-0 after men in blue defeated the visitors in the second T20 in Indore by seven-wickets. The first match was abandoned without a ball being bowled due to rain.
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Meanwhile, Sri Lanka will be looking forward to restricting India from winning this game to end the series to a draw.
Second T20 Stats: India 144/3 (KL Rahul 45, Shreyas Iyer 34, Wanindu Hasaranga 2-30) defeated Sri Lanka 142/9 (Kusal Perera 34, Avishka Fernando 22, Shardul Thakur 3-23) by seven wickets.
Squads
India: Virat Kohli (c), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Shivam Dube, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur, Manish Pandey, Washington Sundar, Sanju Samson.
Sri Lanka: Lasith Malinga (c), Dhanushka Gunathilaka, Avishka Fernando, Angelo Mathews, Dasun Shanaka, Kusal Perera, Niroshan Dickwella, Dhananjaya De Silva, Isuru Udana, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Oshada Fernando, Wanindu Hasaranga, Lahiru Kumara, Kusal Mendis, Lakshan Sandakan, Kasun Rajitha.