Sri Lankan cricket team in India in 2017–18
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The Sri Lanka cricket team toured India in November and December 2017.[1][2] The original schedule had the tour consisting of three Tests, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and one Twenty20 International (T20I) match starting in February 2018.[3]
Sri Lankan cricket team in India in 2017–18 | |||
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India | Sri Lanka | ||
Dates | 11 November – 24 December 2017 | ||
Captains |
Virat Kohli (Tests) Rohit Sharma (ODIs & T20Is) |
Dinesh Chandimal (Tests) Thisara Perera (ODIs & T20Is) | |
Test series | |||
Result | India won the 3-match series 1–0 | ||
Most runs | Virat Kohli (610) | Dinesh Chandimal (366) | |
Most wickets | Ravichandran Ashwin (12) |
Suranga Lakmal (8) Dilruwan Perera (8) | |
Player of the series | Virat Kohli (Ind) | ||
One Day International series | |||
Results | India won the 3-match series 2–1 | ||
Most runs | Rohit Sharma (217) | Angelo Mathews (153) | |
Most wickets | Yuzvendra Chahal (6) | Thisara Perera (5) | |
Player of the series | Shikhar Dhawan (Ind) | ||
Twenty20 International series | |||
Results | India won the 3-match series 3–0 | ||
Most runs | Rohit Sharma (162) | Kusal Perera (100) | |
Most wickets | Yuzvendra Chahal (8) |
Dushmantha Chameera (3) Thisara Perera (3) Nuwan Pradeep (3) | |
Player of the series | Jaydev Unadkat (Ind) |
In March 2017, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) announced the dates for the 2018 Nidahas Trophy, a limited-overs tri-series tournament featuring Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh. This was scheduled to take place in March 2018.[4] The SLC president Thilanga Sumathipala said that some of the scheduled limited-overs matches fixtures in this series would now be played in the Nidahas Trophy.[4] The revised schedule of the tour now has three Tests, three ODIs and three T20Is.[5][6] Ahead of the Test series, a two-day tour match was played between the India Board President XI and Sri Lanka.[7]
In August 2017, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary mentioned that the Tests would be played in Kolkata, Nagpur and Delhi. The ODI venues would be in Dharamshala, Mohali and Visakhapatnam and the three T20 games would be played in Cuttack, Indore and Mumbai.[8][9] Moreover, Choudhary said that a second reason for Sri Lanka's advanced arrival was the cancellation of the proposed series between India and Pakistan.[8]
In October 2017, Virat Kohli was named as India's captain for the Test series.[10] However, in November 2017, he was rested for the ODIs as well as T20Is in preparation for India's tour to South Africa at the end of the year, with Rohit Sharma named as captain.[11][12] On 29 November 2017, Thisara Perera was named as Sri Lanka's captain for the ODI and T20I matches, replacing Upul Tharanga.[13][14]
India won the Test series 1–0, after the first and third matches were drawn.[15] India won the ODI series 2–1, their eighth consecutive series win since beating Zimbabwe in June 2016.[16] India won the T20I series 3–0.[17]