Indian Cricket Journey towards ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Australia 2020

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Indian cricket fans will be busy for the next one and half month watching their favorite cricket players playing continues cricket. Because, Indian Men cricket team going to play 3 International cricket series for the next one and half month, two series at home and one in New Zealand.

Indian cricket team are concentrating more on playing T20 international matches as it helps them to prepare for the Mega tournament in the year-end i.e ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2020 in Australia. 

These series also help the Indian selectors and Captain Virat Kholi to experiment few new players and get ready to prepare a strong team for ICC Men’s T20 World cup 2020.

For the very first time, Indian team going to play five T20 International matches, three ODI and 2 Test matches during Indian tour of New Zealand. In the next one and half month India going to play 11 T20 International matches, 3 One Day International matches and 2 International test matches.

Below are the details of the individual series:

Sri Lanka Tour of India:

Date: 5th January to 10th January 2020 

T20 International Matches: 3

1^st T20 International Match: 5^th January 2020, at Guwahati

2^nd T20 International Match: 7^th January 2020, at Indore

3^rd T20 International Match: 10^th January 2020, at Pune

Australia Tour of India:

Date: 14th Jan to 19th Jan 2020

T20 International Matches: 3

1^st T20 International Match: 14^th January 2020, Mumbai

2nd T20 International Match: 17^th January 2020, Rajkot

3rd T20 International Match: 19^th January 2020, Bengaluru

India Tour of New Zealand:

Date: 24^th Jan 2020 to 29^th Feb 2020

T20 International Matches: 5

1^st T20 International: 24^th January 2020, at Auckland

2^nd T20 International: 26^th January 2020, at Auckland

3^rd T20 International: 29^th January 2020, at Hamilton

4^th T20 International: 31^st January 2020, at Willington

5^th T20 International: 2^nd February 2020, at Mount Maunganui

ODI Matches: 3

1^st ODI International: 5^th February 2020, at Hamilton

2nd ODI International: 8^th February 2020, at Auckland

3rd ODI International: 11^th February 2020, at Mount Maunganui

Test Matches:2

1^st Test International: 21^st February 2020, at Wellington

2nd Test International: 29rch^th February 2020, at Christchurch

All the best for Indian Cricket Team

India Vs Sri Lanka T20 International Cricket Series (Ind vs SL Online Scores) - January 5th

Good News for Indian and Sri Lanka Cricket fans, as we have a Sri Lanka tour of India cricket series coming soon in the new year 2020, 5th January 2020.

Indian cricket team, starts their new year schedule, by playing 3 T20 International with Sri Lanka from 5th January 2020 to 10th January 2020.

Ind Vs SL Series details:


India vs Sri Lanka 1st T20 International Match:

Date: 01/05/2020
Stadium: Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati
Place: Guwahati

All set for 1st T20 International for the year 2020 for both India & Sri Lanka. All eyes on the performance of Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah after come back to Indian squad. The match will be start at 7:00 PM Indian local time at Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati.

India lost one, drawn one and won 3 series in their 5 T20 International appearances. They lost to Australia with 2-0 and drawn the series with South Africa with 1-1 and Won the series with USA/West Indies (3-0), Bangladesh (2-1) and most recently West Indies (2-1).

On other hand, Sri Lank had a poor performance in their last 5 T20 internationals appearance. They won only one and last in 4 T20 internationals. They lost to New Zealand twice (1-0) and (2-1) and one to South Africa (3-0) and last series against Australia (3-0). The only one they won was against Pakistan (3-0).

But we can't take the Sri Lanka that easy, even though their past performance is not so good. As they're aware and very much used to the Indian conditions.

Watch Live - India Vs Sri Lanka 1st T20 Internationals here

"The 1st T20 match got abandoned due to rain"

India vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20 International Match:

Date: 01/07/2020
Stadium: Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore
Place: Indore

All set for the 2nd T20 match between India vs Sri Lanka at Holkar Cricket Stadium, as we know the first match got abandoned due to rain. Important match in the series, Indian and Sri Lankan players looking forward to give their best.

The match begins at 7.00 PM IST Indian time. Watch online live details and cricket score updates here.

Indian Team:

Virat Kohli
Jasprit Bumrah
Yuzvendra Chahal
Shikhar Dhawan
Shivam Dube
Shreyas Iyer
Ravindra Jadeja
Kuldeep Yadav
Manish Pandey
Rishabh Pant (Wicketkeeper)
KL Rahul
Navdeep Saini
Sanju Samson (Wicketkeeper)
Shardul Thakur
Washington Sundar

Sri Lanka Team:

Lasith Malinga (c)
Dhananjaya de Silva
Wanindu Hasaranga
Niroshan Dickwella (Wicketkeeper)
Oshada Fernando
Avishka Fernando
Danushka Gunathilaka
Lahiru Kumara
Angelo Mathews
Kusal Mendis (Wicketkeeper)
Kusal Perera (Wicketkeeper)
Bhanuka Rajapaks
Kasun Rajitha
Lakshan Sandakan
Dasun Shanaka
Isuru Udana

Match Details:

Sri Lanka after 20 overs they made 142/9. 

Good bowling by the Indian youngsters, every one got the wickets in this match.

JJ Bumrah - 4 overs 32/1
SN Thakur - 4 overs 23/3 (3 wickets in a single over)
NA Saini - 4 overs 18/2
Washington Sundar - 4 overs 29/1
Kuldeep Yadav - 4 overs 38/2

2nd Innings:

India won the 2nd T20 International comfortably with 7 wickets in hand. They chased down the 143 target in 17.3 overs. India got a very good start between KL Rahul and S Dhawan (71 runs partnership for the first wicket).

KL Rahul (45 runs in 32 balls)
S Dhawan (32 runs in 29 Balls)
SS Iyer (34 runs in 26 balls)
V Kohli (30 runs in 17 balls)

Player of the Match: Navdeep Saini

Watch Online, India vs Sri Lanka 2nd T20 International 2020 Match Highlights here


Ind vs SL 3rd T20 International Match:

Date: 01/10/2020
Stadium: Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune
Place: Pune

India 201/6
Sri Lanka 123 (15.5/20 overs)

Shardul Thakur was awarded with Player of the Match because of his important innings in the end made India to cross 200. He made 22 Runs in 8 Balls which include 1 Four and 2 Sixes and in the second innings he has taken 2 wickets in 3 overs by giving away 19 runs.

India won the match by 78 Runs.

Indian won the T20 International series against Sri Lanka by 2 - 0



Series highlights:
1. Lasith Malinga is named captain of Sri Lank squad
2. Jasprit Bumrah back into Indian squad
3. Player of the series award to Navdeep Saini

Stay tuned for Match results and highlights