by India and Sri Lanka are the top rivals from starting the cricket in between these two teams in international cricket. The first-ever match played between these two teams is in 1979 and from that time o till now they are playing each other.
Both teams have top-performer players. For India, there is Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja. Like that, for Sri Lanka, there are players like Anjelo Mathews, karunaratne, De silva. Both teams also have the legends players also like Sachin Tendulkar, Virendra Sehwag, kumar sangakara, mahela jaiwardhane. And now from 13 July 2021, India vs Sri Lanka series is starting in which both teams will play 3 ODI and 3 t20 matches.
India vs Sri Lanka 2021
For India, Shikhar Dhawan is going to lead India against Sri Lanka. The team of India against Sri Lanka is announced earlier. Due to the world test championship final, the first India team is gone to England for the final and due to that, the second team is selected for the Sri Lanka tour 2021. Here is the list of selected played for India vs Sri Lanka 2021
| Players | Players |
| Shikhar Dhawan (Captain) | Bhuvneshwar Kumar(vice-captain) |
| Devdutt Padikal | Sanju Samson ( wicket-keeper) |
| Ruturaj Gaikwad | Yajuvendra Chahal |
| Prithvi Shaw | Rahul Chahar |
| Surya Kumar Yadav | K Gowtham |
| Manish Pandey | Kuldeep Yadav |
| Hardik Pandya | Deepak Chahar |
| Nitish Rana | Varun Chakravarthy |
| Krunal Pandya | Navdeep Saini |
| Ishan Kishan (wicket-keeper) | Chetan Sakariya |
Net bowlers: Ishan Porel, Sandeep Warrier, Arshdeep Singh, Sai Kishore, Simarjeet Singh
India vs Srilanka 2021 schedule
India vs Sri Lanka 2021 series is scheduled from the 13 July 202. And also the team India selection is done. Team India is playing under the new captain of the team Shikhar Dhawan. The Indian tour of the Sri Lanka series is divided into 2 parts. Ind vs SL ODI and Ind vs SL t2o series. India will do fantastic work in Sri Lanka.
Here is the schedule of the ind vs sl odi
All the matches of ind vs sl odi are going to play in Colombo. The starting of this series is on 13 July.
| Date | Match | Venue |
| 13 July 21 | 1st ODI | Colombo |
| 16 July 21 | 2nd ODI | Colombo |
| 18 July 21 | 3rd ODI | Colombo |
Here is Ind vs SL t20 schedule
After the ind vs Sri Lanka ODI series then India is going to play ind vs SL t20 series the t20 series is going to start from 21 July 21.
| Date | Match | Venue |
| 21 July 21 | 1st T20 | Colombo |
| 23 July 21 | 2nd T20 | Colombo |
| 25 July 21 | 3rd T20 | Colombo |
This is the schedule, but here is the record of both teams head to head in the history of their cricket.
India vs Sri Lanka head to head in ODI
Both teams are played ODI matches against each other lots of times, here we will look at some of the top matches or series played between them. In between both teams, there are total 165 numbers of matches played.
| Number of matches | Won by India | Won by Sri Lanka | Drawn | No result |
| 165 | 91 | 56 | 0 | 11 |
Here are top matches from ind vs sl odi
There are lots of matches ind vs SL are historic here are some of the theme which is historic and remains memorable.
Ind vs SL 2011
In the 2011 world cup, both teams have played good cricket. And lots of struggle both teams are reached to the final of the 2011 world cup first Sri Lanka decided to bat first. But the start of the innings by Sri Lanka got really slow. The Indian bowlers bowled a really good bowl in the right line and length. But then Mahela Jayawardene comes and played a massive century knock in the final. And get a total of 274 runs with the loss of 6 wickets in their 50 overs.
After that Indian innings start is also the same as Sri Lanka both openers of India got out early. Then Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli get some partnership. After Virat Kohli wickets captain of Indian cricket teams to bat ahead of the Yuvraj Singh and scored a match-winning 91 runs and won the world cup. For the match-winning innings from MS Dhoni, he was elected as the play of the match. This was India vs Sri Lanka in 2011.
Ind vs SL 2017 ODI
When India played the 5 ODI series against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka in that series India whitewashes the Sri Lankan team in 5 ODI series in ind vs SL ODI
1st ODI
In the first ODI of the series, Sri Lanka only manages to get 226 runs and all out in the first innings. From Sri Lanka, iron dickwella scored a half-century. He scored 64 runs in innings. From India, Exar Patel took the most wickets he took 3 wickets.
From India, in the second innings, Shikhar Dhawan scored a century of 132 runs and Virat Kohli scored 82 runs in that match. With the help of both innings, India managed to win the match with 9 wickets remaining.
2nd ODI
In the second ODI match again Sri Lanka batted first and get a total of 236 runs in that innings Milinda siriwardana scored 58 runs in 58 balls.
From the Indian side, Rohit Sharma scored 54 runs and Bhubaneshwar Kumar scored 53 runs. From Sri Lankan bowling Akila Dhananjay took 6 wickets.
3rd ODI
In the 3rd ODI also Indian bowlers bowled a good line and length and manage to stop Sri Lankan batsmen on 2117 runs in 50 overs. From India, jasprit bumhra took 5 wickets
In Indian innings, Rohit Sharma scored 124 runs and got a win to India and for their support, MS Dhoni also scored 67 runs.
4th ODI
In the 4th test, India batted first. From India, two best batsman Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma scored the century. Virat Kohli scored 131 runs in 96 balls, and Rohit Sharma scored 104 runs in 88 balls. And got India to 375 runs in 50 overs.
From Srilanka only Ajello Mathews scored the half-century he scored 80 runs. Apart from Angelo Mathews no Sri Lankan batsman scored a half-century. Due to that Sri Lanka losses the match. The innings from Virat Kohli are magnificent due to which he is nominated as a player of the match.
5th ODI
In the last match Sri Lanka again batted first from Sri Lanka Lahiru thirimane scored a half-century, he scored 67 runs in 102 balls from India Bhubaneshwar Kumar took the 5 wickets. And Sri Lanka scored only 238 runs in 50 overs
From India in batting Virat Kohli scored the half-century, he scored 110 runs, and for him supporting role paid by the Kedar Jadhav he scored a half-century. For the 5 wickets of the Bhubaneshwar Kumar, he was nominated as the player of the match.
