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India vs Sri Lanka Score, 1st T20I of India vs Sri Lanka 2020
Result · Jan 05 2020, Sun - 07:00 PM (IST)
India Sri Lanka Match abandoned without a ball bowled
Match Info
| Series: | Sri Lanka in India 2020 |
| Date: | Jan 05 2020, Sun - 07:00 PM (IST) |
| Country: | India |
| City: | Guwahati |
| Venue: | Barsapara Cricket Ground |
| Toss: | India won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| India Squad: | Shikhar Dhawan, Lokesh Rahul, Virat Kohli (c), Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (wk), Shivam Dube, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Navdeep Saini |
| Sri Lanka Squad: | Danushka Gunathilaka, Avishka Fernando, Kusal Perera (wk), Oshada Fernando, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Dhananjaya de Silva, Dasun Shanaka, Isuru Udana, Wanindu Hasaranga, Lahiru Kumara, Lasith Malinga (c) |
Match Facts
- Sri Lanka captain Lasith Malinga took the second-most wickets (82) of any player in men's T20Is in the last decade (2010-2019), only Rashid Khan (84) picked up more.
- Virat Kohli (India) struck 128 runs in the death overs (17-20) during 2019 men's T20I matches; only one man from a Test-playing nation posted more in that period of games (Mohammad Nabi, 147).
- Rohit Sharma (India) has dropped four 'easy' catches in men's T20I games since the start of 2018; the highest number by any fielder from a Test-playing side.
- Only Australia's Glenn Maxwell (140.5) has a better batting average against Sri Lanka in men's T20I cricket than Indian trio Manish Pandey (97.5), Virat Kohli (94.3) and Dinesh Karthik (92.0); indeed, that quartet are the only players with an average above 90.
- India have won four of their last five men's T20Is on home soil (L1), after winning just one of their five completed matches prior (L4).
- Sri Lanka have won just three of their last 10 men's T20Is away from home (T1 L6), despite winning the coin toss in seven of the matches in that stretch.
- India have won 10 of their last 15 bilateral men's T20I series (D3 L2), going undefeated in the last four of that span (W3 D1).
- Sri Lanka have won just two of their last seven multi-game bilateral men's T20I series (L5), those victories coming against Pakistan (October 2019) and Bangladesh (February 2018).
- This will be the second men's T20I at Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati, India suffered an eight-wicket loss to Australia in the inaugural fixture at the venue (10 October 2017).
- This will be the fourth multi-game bilateral men's T20I series between India and Sri Lanka, India are currently unbeaten after the first three iterations (W2 D1).