India Vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20I: The second match of the three T20 series being played between India and Sri Lanka will be played in Pune on Thursday. Team India has taken a 1-0 lead in the series by winning the first T20 match. Team India now has a chance to make an unbeatable lead in the series by winning the second T20 match. However, Sanju Samson’s injury has forced Team India to make changes in the playing 11 despite the win.
Shivam Mavi, who made his debut in international cricket through the first match, has become a topic of discussion everywhere. Mavi took four wickets for 22 runs. In the second match too, all eyes will be on Mavi. Team India will not make any changes in its bowling attack. However, if Arshdeep Singh becomes fit then he can be given a chance in place of Harshal Patel.
Apart from Mavi, Shubman Gill also made his debut in the first T20 match. Gill could manage only seven runs and left India and Hardik Pandya to solve the opening puzzle once again. Pandya will hope to give Gill another chance in the second T20 match to be held at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium here.
India will hope for a better performance from their top-order as Gill, Suryakumar Yadav and Sanju Samson failed to do well at the Wankhede. Trying to score fast runs against Sri Lankan slow bowlers got out. His shot selection was not up to his mark and the team management would expect better efforts from him in Pune as it would help India take an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-match series. In place of Sanju Samson, Team India can give Rahul Tripathi a chance to debut.
Well performed by the lower order
However, in the lower order, India got relief. Deepak Hooda and Akshar Patel took the team to a respectable score with brilliant efforts.
Led by skipper Pandya, the Indian bowling unit executed their plans and restricted Sri Lanka to 160 runs in 20 overs. Although the match was very close in the end, so both the teams will have a chance to rectify the mistakes in Pune. Sri Lanka needed 13 runs in the last six balls of the match, India could have lost on the last ball. Although Akshar Patel took over India.
Indian team: Hardik Pandya (captain), Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav (vice-captain), Deepak Hooda, Rahul Tripathi, Yuzvendra Chahal, Akshar Patel, Harshal Patel, Umran Malik, Shivam Mavi.
