India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Parag reels off the last two wickets off the first two balls of the over itself and India's new era begins with a resounding win. Well, Sri Lanka have gone from 140/1 in 14 overs to being 170 all out. In between that, they lost five wickets in three overs and that pretty much ended any chances they had of pulling off a famous win over the world champions. And maybe this is the reason why India are world champions. They came back from the dead against South Africa in THAT match last month. This was a much more comfortable situation compared to that and they just stayed on the money as much as they could in the face of the big hits and the misfields creeping in.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Well its all fallen apart quite spectacularly for Sri Lanka. Riyan Parag to bowl the last over. Credit to India. There were a few misfields but they kept their eyes on the ball even when Nissanka was leading the Sri Lankan charge. And then, when the wickets came, they came in a heap.

IND vs SL Live Score: Sri Lanka 170/8 in 19 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Ah and it was all going so well for the hosts. Just two overs ago, they were better placed to win this game. Now they are down and out. India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Shanaka run out off the first ball of the 17th bowled by Riyan Parag. And then Parag cleans up Mendis fourth ball. That should be the game.

IND vs SL Live Score: Sri Lanka 163/6 in 17 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Well it's all falling apart now for Sri Lanka. Bishnoi had dropped one again off his own bowling first ball of the 16th. He pushes the last ball flat and quick on off, Asalanka shapes up for a slog sweep and gets a top edge. Easy catch for Jaiswal.

Asalanka c Jaiswal b Ravi Bishnoi 0 (2)

IND vs SL Live Score: Sri Lanka 158/4 in 16 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Perera holes out to deep square last ball of the 15th after hitting Axar for two fours. This time, Bishnoi holds on to it. Sri Lanka lose both their set batters. Well, is this where the world champions get back in it?

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Relief for Bishnoi as Axar makes sure his drop wasn't too expensive. First ball of the 15th keeps moving into the batter, cramps him up. He whips his bat and misses the ball which hits his leg stump. The end of an extraordinary innings that has possibly put Sri Lanka in sight of a famous win.

Nissanka b Patel 79 (48)

IND vs SL Live Score: Sri Lanka 140/2 in 14 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: What in the world is happening here. Bishnoi has put down an absolute sitter to give Nissanka of all people a second chance. Pandya with a hip high short ball last ball of the 14th, Nissanka pulls, it was straight to Bishnoi but it bounces out of his hands. This is an extraordinary collapse in the field from the world champions.

IND vs SL Live SCore: Sri Lanka 140/1 in 14 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Sri Lanka are going at 10 and their required rate is just over 11. This is turning into quite an interesting chase indeed.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Nissanka crosses 50 in 34 balls. Well he should have only got to 51 there as the batters ran two, Rinku fires a throw and it hits the stumps, no one backing him up and it goes to the boundaries. It looked like that would be six runs for them but the umpires declare five as the batters hadn't crossed when Rinku released the throw. What an innings this has been from Nissanka.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Arshdeep Singh gets the breakthrough and Kusal Mendis's impressive innings ends. Kusal tries to force the pace on his pull as Arshdeep sends in a knuckleball fourth ball of the ninth, ends up hitting it straight into the hands of Jaiswal at deep midwicket.

Mendis c Jaiswal b Arshdeep Singh 45 (27)

IND vs SL Live Score: Sri Lanka 84/1 in 8.4 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: The SL openers giving the world champions something to think now.

IND vs SL Live Score: SL 77/0 in 8 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: India lost a wicket off the last ball of that powerplay, Sri Lanka haven't but they are also about 20 runs behind the visitors at this stage. Mendis clears square leg off the last ball of the sixth over from Axar for a boundary. He moves to 23 off 17 with that, Nissanka on 31 off 19 at the other end. Sri Lanka's required run rate is 11.35 and they are going at 9.16, which they won't have a problem with at all.

IND vs SL Live Score: Sri Lanka 55/0 in 6 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Nissanka gets two sixes off the fourth and sixth balls of the fourth over from Siraj and that ensures Sri Lanka get 13 off the fourth. He and Mendis got a boundary each off Axar in the previous over and so that gave the hosts 13 runs as well. Nissanka on 30 off 16, Mendis on seven off eight.

IND vs SL Live Score: Sri Lanka 38/0 in 4 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Siraj starts the second over with a hat-trick of dots to Nissanka. The batters run twos off the last two balls. Siraj had struck Nissanka on the pads fourth ball and appealed for LBW. He then asked SKY to go upstairs but the Indian captain was on the same page with the umpire.

IND vs SL Live Score: Sri Lanka 13/0 in 2 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Nissanka smashes the third ball through extra cover for the first four of the innings. Then he hops back and sends the next ball behind point for another four. Single off the next ball and then Mendis is beaten as he looked for the late in swing.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Now for the chase. Arshdeep Singh bowling the first over for India, Pathum Nissanka on strike, Kusal Mendis at the other end. Here we go!

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Axar smashes Fernando for a six back over the bowler's head last ball of the innings and that takes India past 210. He finishes on 10 off five, with Fernando having dismissed Rinku Singh off the fourth ball of that over.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: An utterly ridiculous sequence of play ends with Pathirana cleaning up Pant. Pant almost falls over as he scoops the third ball of that over over short fine leg. Then he swings so hard at the fourt ball that the bat flings out of his hand and many feet into the sky behind him. He connected in between all that and the ball flies over square leg for another. Another big swing next ball, this time it is a slower ball on length and it takes the bails.

Pant b Pathirana 49 (33)

IND vs SL Live Score: India 201/6 in 18.5 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Once again that hand on chest celebration. Pathirana's yorkers are just too much for batters in death-over swinging mode. It zips into Parag and smashes into the back pad. Plumb LBW.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Parag reverse sweeps the first ball from Theekshana in the 18th and sends it to the point boundary. He gets off strike next ball and Pant smashes the third past long off for another four. Two runs off the last three balls, Pant on 41 off 30, Parag on seven off five.

IND vs SL Live Score: India 192/4 in 18 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Pant cutting a frustrated figure. He manages to get a rather lucky boundary off Pathirana fifth ball. Then another swing and a miss last ball. He is on 36 off 28, has Riyan Parag at the other end on one off one.

IND vs SL Live Score: India 181/4 in 17 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Pathirana again, slings Pandya out of the park. Pandya stepped outside leg, in full finisher mode. But Pathirana nailed the yorker and Pandya missed it entirely. The stumps behind him end up in a mess. A typical T20 death-over dismissal really.

Pandya b Pathirana 9 (10)

IND vs SL Live Score: India 176/4 in 16.3 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Pant connects at long, long, looooong last. Fernando starts that 16th over with a wide. And then three swings and misses and thus three dots for Pant. Fernando then misses the wide yorker, Pant helicopters that full toss on off over the midwicket boundary for a six. Fernando misses the yorker next ball again, Pant sends that over sweeper cover for a four. Two runs off the last ball and Pant is on 32 off 26, Pandya on five off seven. Pathirana to bowl his third in the 17th.

IND vs SL Live Score: India 172/3 in 16 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Just six runs in that over from Hasaranga. He finishes on figures of 1/28. Pant on strike as Asitha Fernando loads up the first ball of the 16th, he is on 20 off 20, Pandya at the other end on five off seven. India can still get past 200 quite easily here.

IND vs SL Live Score: India 159/3 in 15 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Hasaranga returns to bowl his last over. India's little drop in the middle overs happened because of him. Hardik Pandya is on strike, the struggling Pant at the other end on 16 off 17.

IND vs SL Live Score: India 159/3 in 15 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: A 149kph scorcher from Pathirana second ball of the 14th after SKY hits him for four off the first, full into the Indian captain's pads and he is gone for all money. The Indian captain reviews though Pathirana torpedoed that into SKY's front pad. It would have lasered into middle and leg. A great delivery to end a great innings

Suryakumar Yadav lbw b Pathirana 58 (26)

IND vs SL Live Score: India 150/3 in 13.2 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: This is effectively his debut match as full-time captain, he did lead India in seven T20Is before this but that was as a stop-gap. He has raced past his half-century in 22 balls. He brings that up with a four off the first ball of the 13th over by Theekshana. It was short from the spinner, SKY smashes it with his bottom wrist between deep mid and long on. Gets off strike next ball and then Pant gets a boundary Pant is dropped quite spectacularly by Asitha running towards the boundary from deep square leg. The ball goes past the boundary for a four as well. Two more runs from the last two balls, SKY on 54 off 24, Pant on 16 off 17.

IND vs SL Live Score: India 146/2 in 13 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: SKY hits fours off the fourth and fifth balls of that over from Hasaranga to make it a good one for India. He is on 38 off 16, this is turning out to be quite a knock from him. Pant? Not quite. He is on 10 off 13.

IND vs SL Live Score: India 122/2 in 11 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: The run rate has slowed down now. Rishabh Pant especially needs to get a move on. He is on nine off 11, SKY on 28 off 12.

IND vs SL Live Score: India 111/2 in 10 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Just four runs off the ninth over, SKY and Pant respecting Hasaranga there. All four from singles off the last four balls of the over. SKY on 21 off eight, Pant on seven off nine.

IND vs SL Live Score: Indian 102/2 in 9 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Madushanka bowls the eighth and the Indian captain sends his last three deliveries over the boundary. He has raced to 19 in six balls and India continue to put pressure on SL.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Googly first up from Hasaranga as he bowls the seventh over, Jaiswal plays down the wrong line entirely. Gets beaten completely and he had come down the pitch, keeper picks it up and whips off the bails.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Gill goes down swinging, although Sri Lanka almost made a comedic meal of that catch. Gill smashed two fours and a six in that over. He goes for a second consecutive six down the ground but mishits it. The mid-on fielder got there but then hesitated last second when he saw a teammate rushing towards him. Then he realised that the other guy is not interested and somehow, made the last millisecond catch and took it anyway.

Gill c Fernando b Madushanka 34 (16)

IND vs SL Live Score: India 74/1 in 6 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Usually Gill hangs back while Jaiswal tonks 'em everywhere but here, the boundaries are coming from both ends of the pitch. Asitha Fernando continues for his second over in the fourth. Sends in a slow one and Gill waits for it before cutting it past short third for a four. Fantastic roll of the wrists to whip the third away for another boundary and then Gill gets off strike. Jaiswal ends the over by clubbing the last ball over midwicket for another six. He is on 33 off 15, Gill on 18 off nine, India are flying.

IND vs SL Live Score: India 51/0 in 4 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: And survives a review for LBW as well. Sri Lanka bring in Theekshana in order to stem the flow of runs but the usually frugal spinner couldn't do much. Jaiswal steps out first ball of the third and lofts Theekshana over long off for the first six of the series. Then he sweeps the second ball up and over square leg for a four. Four runs off the next three balls and Theekshana strikes the lower part of Jaiswal's pads on the half volley. LBW appeal turned down and Asalanka takes the review. As it turns out, the noise that came was bat hitting ground and not ball. Ball tracking predicts that it would have missed off stump. Lucky break for Jaiswal. He is on 27 off 13, Gill on nine off five.

IND vs SL Live Score: India 36/0 in 3 overs

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: And it is Shubman Gill who has scored more than Yashasvi Jaiswal. The first ball from Madushanka was short and angling down leg, Jaiswal is onto it like a rash. Pulls away to the deep backward square leg boundary. He gets off strike next ball and then two dot balls for Gill. He then sends the fifth ball past backward point for a four and then another boundary off the last as well.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Here they are. Indian fans saw Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma last month, now here are Shubman Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal. Another song of ice and fire for an Indian opening combination, just under two decades younger maybe. Dilshan Madushanka opens the bowling for Sri Lanka.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: SKY leads out India, Asalanka leads out Sri Lanka. Wide smiles on the faces of most players. The Indian national anthem comes first and then Sri Lanka's. A good crowd building up in the stadium.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Asalanka says that Sri Lanka are looking to give players specific roles, why is why they have chosen five bowlers.

Sri Lanka XI: Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis(w), Kusal Perera, Kamindu Mendis, Charith Asalanka(c), Dasun Shanaka, Wanindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Matheesha Pathirana, Asitha Fernando, Dilshan Madushanka

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Suryakumar Yadav says that India are starting from scratch here.

India XI: Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Rishabh Pant(w), Riyan Parag, Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Siraj

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Sri Lanka have won the toss and chosen to bowl first. Asalanka says that they are playing as many as five bowlers today.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Suryakumar Yadav and Charith Asalanka are standing in readiness for the coin toss. There are covers in place beyond the boundary but that is just a precautionary measure, there are a few foreboding clouds rolling over the hills in the distance.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Khaleel Ahmed has been warming up for a long time and so chances are that he will play today. Suryakumar did a little pep talk to the group of players today before they broke off to begin the warm-ups.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: FIrst things first, the sky is gleaming blue in the evening sun in Pallekele. The players are warming up in the middle.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Sri Lanka's former ODI captain has a good record against fellow all-rounder Hardik Pandya, when it is Shanaka doing the bowling that is. He has dismissed Pandya thrice in 14 balls in T20Is, conceding only 13 runs against him.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Now while Gill may have been unimpressive in T20Is, he had a fairly good season in the IPL. Gill scored 426 runs at an average of 38.72 and a strike rate of 147.40 in his first season as captain of the Gujarat Titans. This and the talent that he has shown for all these years coupled with his incredible recent record in Tests and ODIs seem to have convinced selectors that he remains India's future all-format captain. Which is why he is still vice-captain in this series and in the ODIs and this possibly could be the case in Tests as well the next time India announced a squad for a red-ball mat

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Rahul Dravid was captain of the Indian team when Gautam Gambhir made his Test debut back in 2004 at the Wankhede Stadium against Australia. Now he replaces Dravid as the head coach of the Indian team and his former skipper left a pretty special voice note for him. Here is what he said in the note for Gambhir:

“Hello, Gautam, and welcome to the most exciting job in our world as coach of the Indian cricket team. It's been three weeks since I ended my stint with the Indian team in a manner that was beyond my dreams. Both in Barbados and then a few days later in that unforgettable evening in Mumbai. More than anything else, I will treasure the memories and friendships I made in my time with the squad. As you take over the role of India coach, it is what I wish for you as well.”

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Gill himself has admitted that he hasn't been good enough in the format since August 2023. From that month till the T20 World Cup, Gill scored 133 runs in eight T20Is, at an average of 16.62 and a strike rate of 126.66.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: India were seemingly unaffected by Hardik Pandya being ruled out of the 2023 World Cup midway through the tournament due to a freak injury. But his all-round abilities were sorely missed in the final that they lost to Australia after dominating every team before that. Then, he was suddenly made captain of Mumbai Indians with longtime skipper Rohit Sharma, beloved by the fans, sacked. No explanation given by the franchise for anything and Pandya was not allowed the opportunity to address some of the more scandalous rumours around his new contract with MI. And so, he was booed to the horizon and back all around the country, he was a shadow of his usual self and MI finished rock bottom in his first year as their captain. At the T20 World Cup, he put all of that behind him and was the life of India's victorious campaign. Whatever reasons fans at the Wankhede found to boo him were forgotten as the city of Mumbai welcomed Pandya and the Indian team with open arms.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Not against one bowler at least for both these sides. In T20Is, since January 2023, Arshdeep Singh and Maheesh Theekshana have conceded less than 7 runs and over in Powerplays

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: India have eight full-time batters in their squad. All of them have a strike rate of above 140 in T20 cricket this year.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Pathum Nissanka, Avishka Fernando, Kusal Mendis(w), Charith Asalanka(c), Dasun Shanaka, Kamindu Mendis, Wanindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Dilshan Madushanka, Matheesha Pathirana, Binura Fernando, Dinesh Chandimal, Kusal Perera, Asitha Fernando, Dunith Wellalage, Chamindu Wickramasinghe

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Rishabh Pant(w), Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Siraj, Sanju Samson, Riyan Parag, Khaleel Ahmed, Shivam Dube

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st T20I: No, you haven't mistakenly stumbled onto a live blog on a Taylor Swift concert. This tour of Sri Lanka really is about eras for both teams. The end of one and the beginning of another. The retirement of players like Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli certainly marks the end of an era. So too Ravindra Jadeja, although that would certainly be more true in Tests, in which he is a genuine all-time great, than in limited overs cricket, particularly T20Is. Rahul Dravid has stepped down as head coach, and stepped away from working within Indian cricket, something he has done since he took over as the India U19 and India A coach in 2015. Gautam Gambhir has taken his place and his journey in the role begins today. Sri Lanka seem to have completely moved on from Angelo Mathews. Charith Asalanka is the new captain and the legendary Sanath Jayasuriya's time as the team's head coach begins today.

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