Sri Lanka 255

Stay with TOI for all of the reside cricket rating updates, ball by ball commentary, scorecard and highlights of 1st Test match between West Indies and Sri Lanka. The West Indies received the primary T20I match by four wickets, with Sri Lanka winning the second match by 43 runs to stage the sequence. The West Indies won the final match by three wickets to win the sequence 2–1.

As the hosts, West Indies are enhancing in Test cricket too, and they’re going to attempt their best to enhance their current home Test records too. On 26 February 2021, the West Indies named their squads for the limited overs matches. Chris Gayle and Fidel Edwards have been recalled to the T20I team, after last enjoying for the national aspect two and nine years in the past respectively. On eleven March 2021, CWI formally appointed Kraigg Brathwaite as their Test captain, changing Jason Holder. Sri Lanka Cricket additionally formally appointed Dasun Shanaka as their T20I captain, replacing Lasith Malinga.

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Then there’s the small matter of Sri Lanka’s construct-up to this collection, which has been chaotic to put it mildly. With a number of senior gamers missing, either via harm or an absence of match-fitness following Covid-associated time away from coaching, the variety of obtainable skilled campaigners within the squad could be counted on one hand. Their captain Dasun Shanaka, in the meantime, who was lucky sufficient to keep away from any of those issues, misses out because he could not sort his visa out on time. And then there’s the issue of the staff’s quick-bowling coach pulling out from the tour at the eleventh hour over a pay dispute – which the nation’s sports minister has overtly acknowledged would impression the younger gamers on tour. And this is with out even touching on the fact that Sri Lanka have not gained a recreation of cricket up to now year.

Ahead of the third ODI, Anderson Phillip was added to the West Indies’ squad. Wanindu Hasaranga was undoubtedly the breakout star of the Lanka Premier League on the tail end of final 12 months. While his effectiveness in the recently concluded Test sequence in opposition to England and South Africa showed his shortcomings in the longest format, his influence within the shorter variants can’t be understated. He topped the wicket charts with 17 at 1.29, while conceding less than a run a ball, and scored his 127 runs at a strike fee of 160.seventy five. With his legspin and his hitting down the order, he has positioned himself as a genuine match-winner. The final time Sri Lanka visited was for a three-match Test series, which ended with both sides sharing the spoils.

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