India ready to play hard-hitting fight against Sri Lanka
India ready to play hard-hitting fight against Sri Lanka
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Kolkata (WB) [India], Nov 10 (NT): Sri Lankan cricket team has landed in India for their six-week tour to play three Tests, three ODIs and three T20I against the hosts.

The series is to begin from November 16 will be Shilankans first full series in India in seven years. The last time the two sides come to blows with each other in the Test format was in 2009, where the Islanders went down 2-0 against India.

Sri Lanka has an upsetting record on Indian soil as they have not succeeded to win a single Test here.

Further, on the series, the SriLankan coach Nic Pothas advised that the team needs to focus on their strengths to give a hard-hitting fight to the top-ranked Test cricket team.

"The blunder you can make here is come and be besotted with the Indian side and concentrate too much on them," ESPNcricinfo quoted Pothas, as saying.

"We know they have a good side. We only played them a month ago. We have to focus on our strengths and performance, and if we can carry out them well it will be a challenging series," he quoted.

The Lankans in recent times recorded a 2-0 'away' Test series win against Pakistan in UAE, but Pathos believes that playing against India would be completely different.

India v SL series schedule

 

1st Test: November 16-20, Kolkata

 

2nd Test: November 24-28, Nagpur

 

3rd Test: December 2-6, Delhi

 

1st ODI: December 10, Dharamsala

 

2nd ODI: December 13, Mohali

 

3rd ODI December 17, Visakhapatnam

 

1st T20I: December 20, Cuttack

 

2nd T20I: December 22, Indore

 

3rd T20I: December 24, Mumbai

 

 

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