Sri Lanka (82/3) beat India (81/8) by 7 wickets in the 3rd T20 at Colombo & win the series 2-1

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India vs Sri Lanka: Navdeep Saini Injures Shoulder, Doubtful for Third T20I

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Sri Lanka vs India, third T20I
R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
July 29, 08:00 local

Navdeep Saini has hurt his shoulder in Colombo.
Things are getting pretty bad for Team India which is now running out of players to say the least. Earlier Krunal Pandya was diagnosed with Covid-19 which also saw a number of players getting isolated.

The incident took place during Sri Lanka’s chase last night at Colombo. Saini was fielding at extra cover when he tried to catch a ball hit by Chamika Karunaratne. Although Saini leapt into the air, he couldn’t reach the ball. Later, he landed on his shoulder and winced in pain.

Things are getting pretty bad for Team India which is now running out of players to say the least. Earlier Krunal Pandya was diagnosed with Covid-19 which also saw a number of players getting isolated. With Saini now getting injured, it needs to be seen how management pulls together a playing eleven.

Sri Lanka Beat India by Four Wickets in Low-scoring Contest to Level Series

A depleted Covid-19-hit India defended resolutely but ultimately the target they set wasn’t enough with Sri Lanka chasing down 133 in 19.4 overs to level the three-match series at one-all with one game remaining. Batting first, India struggled for momentum with Sri Lanka bowlers doing well to keep them quiet, keeping them to a modest 132/5 in the second T20I at the R Premadasa Stadium on Wednesday.

India’s cricket board (BCCI) said that the eight players in question had tested negative on Wednesday afternoon, but were being asked to isolate as a precaution.Playing with only five frontline batsmen and put into bat, India struggled to get going, with the Sri Lanka spinners taking advantage of a slow wicket that was offering ample turn.

https://www.news18.com/cricketnext/news/india-vs-sri-lanka-navdeep-saini-injures-shoulder-doubtful-for-third-t20i-4021466.html

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seems no player fit to replace Saini. Massive problems for Team management
 
India have won the toss and have opted to bat

Sri Lanka (Playing XI): Avishka Fernando, Minod Bhanuka(w), Sadeera Samarawickrama, Dasun Shanaka(c), Dhananjaya de Silva, Wanindu Hasaranga, Ramesh Mendis, Chamika Karunaratne, Pathum Nissanka, Akila Dananjaya, Dushmantha Chameera

India (Playing XI): Shikhar Dhawan(c), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson(w), Nitish Rana, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Rahul Chahar, Sandeep Warrier, Chetan Sakariya, Varun Chakravarthy
 
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Padikkal looks very nervous. Not the free flowing batsman we know.
 
Now Samson's gone too.

Doubt India will cross even 100, given the lineup. Bhuvaneswar Kumar will need to score runs as well as take wickets here.
 
Kumar has bowled so many times in Power play , probably first time he walks into bat in power play :)
 
Hasranga is a talent

I hope sri lanka stick with a proper side now instead of chopping and changing 30 different players.
Bhanuka, chamika and avishka should be persisted with.
 
Looking bleak for India, best chance for SL to boost their confidence and claim this series as a consolation.
 
Bhuvaneswar Kumar is five runs away from getting his highest T20 score :))
 
Every other team should be scared of team India.

Other teams should forfeit the T20 world cup and hand the trophy to mighty India.
 
After Bhuvneshwar Kumar, it is now Kuldeep Yadav's turn to surpass his career highest T20 score of 16 runs. :)

This game is surely helping the battings stats of India's bowlers.
 
Okay...perhaps not..Chakravarty out.

Can we score 100 now? :facepalm:
 
Is this the Papua New Guinea team playing, wearing the India Kit? :100:

No offence to the Guineans.
 
this is the lowest of Indian cricket....as an Indian fan, feeling ashamed of team's performance.
 
this is the lowest of Indian cricket....as an Indian fan, feeling ashamed of team's performance.

Come on now. You're the one who has kept saying that this India team is rubbish. You should be happy to have been proven right, for once.
 
Any reason we decided to bat first today after the failed to defend a total last night? Awful stuff from Dhawan.

Don't have sony subscription and so not watching the match. But I'm guessing the wicket is helpful for the spinners and so the guys thought it's better to put on a decent score and hope to defend as it's very difficult to chase a target against the Lankan spinners on a turning wicket with just 5 batsmen.
 
How come these guys score in IPL for fun ?

Low quality league but there are fans here who believe that IPL teams can beat international sides like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, West Indies easily. Hopefully they will start realizing now that IPL is nowhere near international cricket. :inti
 
India needed one of Surya Kumar Yadav or Ishan Kishan in the team. This batting lineup is terrible. Even Zimbabwe can destroy this Indian team.
 
Low quality league but there are fans here who believe that IPL teams can beat international sides like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, West Indies easily. Hopefully they will start realizing now that IPL is nowhere near international cricket. :inti

Didn't mediocre players like Umar Akmal, Shehzad, Nasir Jamsheed, Hafeez and Saad Nasim defeated 5 times IPL title winner MI in 2014 ?
 
Don't have sony subscription and so not watching the match. But I'm guessing the wicket is helpful for the spinners and so the guys thought it's better to put on a decent score and hope to defend as it's very difficult to chase a target against the Lankan spinners on a turning wicket with just 5 batsmen.

And where are the batsmen that you need to put on a decent score? They missed that one, I suppose.
 
Low quality league but there are fans here who believe that IPL teams can beat international sides like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, West Indies easily. Hopefully they will start realizing now that IPL is nowhere near international cricket. :inti


Relax now. We're playing with 5 batters and 7 out and out bowlers. IPL teams will bash this Indian team 9/10 times.

And yeah they'll thrash Pak, SL, Ban too. :inti
 
Low quality league but there are fans here who believe that IPL teams can beat international sides like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, West Indies easily. Hopefully they will start realizing now that IPL is nowhere near international cricket. :inti

Samson is a choker. He is not fit for Int'l Cricket. The likes of Padikkal are new and he clearly is under a lot of pressure.

Once Dhawan got out cheaply, it was all over for this Indian batting lineup.
 
Hopefully we will get rid of this kit soon. We had a beautiful kit but we decided to choose this 1992 WC kit out of all kits we had in the past. :inti
 
Don't have much hope for SL batters also.
 
Don't have much hope for SL batters also.

Dhawan is awful captain...he will start with seamers and leak runs. Any other captain would start with spinners and try to choke SL from the onset.
 
I think this might be the farewell series for Samson chettan. Hard to see him getting picked again.
 
Hardik Pandya might be regretting what he said.
 
This is what happens when you don’t select players on merit. Average people will get you average results.

:akhtar
 
India 17-0 Sri Lanka since Virat Kohli's debut.
Sri Lanka have not won a bilateral series against India since August 2008 wherein Virat Kohli made his international debut.

This is the best chance to break the record..Congrats Sri Lanka :19:
 
Think Kuldeep might enter the dressing room with a smirk on his face after the match..

No better alpha feeling than being the highest scorer in a losing match, while being a bowler.
 
Men's lowest T20I totals when batting full 20 overs: (Full Members only)
79/7 - West Indies vs Zimbabwe, 2010
81/8 - India vs Sri Lanka, Today
85/9 - Bangladesh vs Pakistan, 2011
 
Really disappointed by seeing the performance of young Indian players. Most are mediocre level talent ,nothing special so far. The captaincy of dhawan is very poor. Rahul Dravid as a coach is very over rated. He was a poor captain and equally poor coach. He is good to improve technique of batsman but very defensive coach. Very very poor as a tactician. Ravi Shastri is a great motivator and aggrisive coach.
 
When SL series announced
Expectation : Highest total in T20Is
Reality : Avoided our lowest total

:snothappy
 
Really disappointed by seeing the performance of young Indian players. Most are mediocre level talent ,nothing special so far. The captaincy of dhawan is very poor. Rahul Dravid as a coach is very over rated. He was a poor captain and equally poor coach. He is good to improve technique of batsman but very defensive coach. Very very poor as a tactician. Ravi Shastri is a great motivator and aggrisive coach.

In Dravid's defense, this is not even a Indian B-Team. This is more like a C or D team. The B-Team got Covid. :asif
 
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