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Sri Lanka win toss, opt to bowl against India

| | Mar 07, 2018, at 12:41 am

Colombo , Mar 6 (IBNS): Sri Lanka won the toss and opted to bowl first in the first T20 match of the  Nidahas Trophy against India here on Tuesday.

Rohit Sharma is captaining the side in place of Kohli.

Bangladesh is the third team playing the series.

India arrived in Sri Lanka after winning ODI and T20 series against South Africa.

The two teams are given below:

SL XI: WU Tharanga, D Gunathilaka, K Mendis, D Chandimal, MDKJ Perera, D Shanaka, NTLC Perera, J Mendis, A Dananjaya, D Chameera, N Pradeep

IND XI: RG Sharma, S Dhawan, S Raina, M Pandey, D Karthik, R Pant, W Sundar, V Shankar, S Thakur, J Unadkat, Y Chahal

 

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