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India vs Sri Lanka Scorecard, 3rd ODI, Sri Lanka vs India 2021
Result · Jul 23 2021, Fri - 03:00 PM (IST)
INDIA225
SRI LANKA227/7
Sri Lanka won by 3 wickets (DLS Method)
CRR:5.82
Match Info
| Series: | India in Sri Lanka 2021 |
| Date: | Jul 23 2021, Fri - 03:00 PM (IST) |
| Country: | Sri Lanka |
| City: | Colombo |
| Venue: | R. Premadasa Stadium |
| Toss: | India won the toss and elected to bat. |
| Sri Lanka Playing XI: | Avishka Fernando, Minod Bhanuka (wk), Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Dhananjaya de Silva, Charith Asalanka, Dasun Shanaka (c), Ramesh Mendis, Chamika Karunaratne, Akila Dananjaya, Dushmantha Chameera, Praveen Jayawickrama |
| India Playing XI: | Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan (c), Sanju Samson (wk), Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Nitish Rana, Hardik Pandya, Krishnappa Gowtham, Rahul Chahar, Navdeep Saini, Chetan Sakariya |
- India will look to whitewash Sri Lanka for third time in their last four multigame bilateral men's ODI series, the last time they won all the matches in such a series was in August/September 2017 which was also in the Island nation; the Men in Blue also registered their 10th consecutive such series win against Sri Lanka after their three-wicket win on 20th July 2021 leading the three-match series 2-0.
- India will have a chance to equal their record of most consecutive men's ODI matches won against Sri Lanka, they are currently on a five-match winning streak against the Island nation and will look to equal the record set between July 1998 and May 1999 (6 matches).
- Sri Lanka have one win from their last 10 completed men's ODI matches (L9), their only win during this run was against Bangladesh on 28 May 2021.
- India have won their last three men's ODI matches, the last time they won more matches in the format was in January 2019 (5 matches).
- Only once previously have Sri Lanka lost three consecutive men's ODI matches at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo which was in 2009, all those matches were also played against India.
- Since the beginning of 2020, India have conceded a boundary once every 6.9 balls in powerplay overs in men's ODI cricket, the most frequent of any Test playing country in that period.
- India have scored 63% of their runs from boundaries during powerplay overs since the beginning of 2020, among Test playing nations only England have a better rate in men’s ODI cricket for any team who have played a minimum of four matches (67%).
- Deepak Chahar is only player to score over 50 runs and scalp over three wickets this ODI series against Sri Lanka, he scored an unbeaten match winning 69 during the last ODI on 20 July 2021, his maiden half-century in international cricket.
- Yuzvendra Chahal needs just three more for 100 wickets in men's ODI cricket for India, he will have a chance to become the second-fastest to 100 wickets for his country equaling Jasprit Bumrah's record (57 matches).
- Wanindu Hasaranga (Sri Lanka) has bowled the most dot balls (63) and has the best dot ball rate (54%) of any bowler in this current men's ODI series against India.