India vs Sri Lanka – Detailed Report (August 4, 2024)
Date and Time:
- Date: August 4, 2024
- Start Time: 2:30 PM local time
Venue:
- Stadium: R. Premadasa Stadium
- Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Capacity: Approximately 35,000
- Pitch: The pitch at the R. Premadasa Stadium is known for assisting spinners, often offering turn and bounce as the game progresses.
It is rather strange for bilateral ODI series, to say the least, and even more so for a series that involves Sri Lanka that has not even made it to the Champions Trophy. How fitting it was that Friday served up an entirely classic example of the format, a tense, slowly building tied game that established, as did the World Cup of last year, over and over again, that the ODI is a splendid hunting ground for cricket skills. We could hope for the best and avoid the worst scenario, according to which the format would be no longer included into the list of the significant sports of the future.
For now, there are two more matches of an unexpectedly absurd tour that still continues. Problems with batting in powerplay once again emerged as Sri Lanka suffered collapses of 9 for 30, 7 for 31 and 7 for 22 in T20Is; Sri Lanka will take heart from how they staged a recovery from 101 for 5 in the 1st ODI on Friday and will aim to put more pressure on India in next two match.
The third T20I in Pallekele as well as the first ODI in Colombo proved that spin is a weapon that amounts to a lot and reduces the difference in quality in these two teams. If Khettarama still gives more than enough grip and turn, well, who can predict where this series will title to?
Form guide
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In the spotlight – Avishka Fernando and Washington Sundar
After regaining the Sri Lankan ODI team in January 2023 following a year-long injury layoff , Avishka Fernando has not been able to touch the level he shown for the first three years of his ODI career . He has scored under twenty in the average-fashion over these last 19 months, but there are scores of 88 and 91 against Afghanistan in that span and, nevertheless, this habit of early dismissal looks obvious.
the lad has scored single-digit scores in nine out of 13 innings. Avishka ranked LPL 2024’s third-highest run-scorer even though he scored only 374 runs at an average of 37. 40 and a strike rate of 162. 60, this might mean that he is on the verge of regaining his international best, which perhaps was interjected by the imports.
Washington Sundar started the first ODI as well quite aggressively, he got one to move away from the outside edge of Charith Asalanka’s bat on the very first delivery he bowled. He had mixed fortunes thereafter; he claimed the wicket of Pathum Nissanka who scored a half-century, India’s main three spinners in the side were expensive with Ashwin going for 46 of the 102 balls that he bowled and 31 runs off the 34 balls that he bowled against the left-hand batsmen, who were ideally suited to him.
He proceeded to be out for 5 after being elevated to No.4. None of this would ordinarily be an issue because all cricketers have their bad days, but Washington is well aware that he is the third spinner in the Indian pecking order ahead of the Champions Trophy with both Ravindra Jadeja Axar Patel and Riyan Parag waiting in the wings to prove theirselves in the ODIs.
Team news – will Khaleel or Harshit get a chance to India vs Sri Lanka?
Sri Lanka middle-order batsman Wanindu Hasaranga ruled out of the rest of one-day internationals with a hammstring strain. Jeffrey Vandersay has replaced him in the squad. Sri Lanka have the option of lengthening their batting by bringing in Chamika Karunaratne in place of Mohamed Shiraz though it is highly unlikely that they will change their combination after having dropped a young fast bowler in the last game India vs Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka (probable): 1 Pathum Nissanka, 2 Avishka Fernando, 3 Kusal Mendis (wk), 4 Sadeera Samarawickrama, 5 Charith Asalanka (capt), 6 Janith Liyanage, 7 Dunith Wellalage, 9 Wanindu Hasaranga/Jeffrey Vandersay, 9 Akila Dananjaya, 10 Mohamed Shiraz, 11 Asitha Fernando
While India could afford to rest Mohammed Siraj, the boy who has been part of all three T20Is as well as the first ODI, the interesting contenders for the final pace spot could be either Khaleel Ahmed or Harshit Rana.
India (probable): 1 Rohit Sharma (capt), 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Shreyas Iyer, 5 KL Rahul (wk), 6 Shivam Dube, 7 Axar Patel, 8 Washington Sundar, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Mohammed Siraj, 11 Arshdeep Singh
Pitch and conditions
Spinners secured 13 of the 18 wickets that went down in the first ODI, which was quite typical of Khettarama. Spin taken as many wickets as the pace here since 2022 overall, and, although the fast bowlers have had a marginally lower bowling figures here in the last one year (27. 28 to the spinners’ 4. 67. Expect similar scenes on Sunday, weather permitting: the forecast is thus; intermittent rainfall is likely to occur all through the day.
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