SL vs IND Dream11 Team Prediction | ICC World Cup 2019 44th Match, Squads, Fantasy Team News

SL vs IND Dream11 44th Match Prediction | Sri Lanka vs India ICC World Cup 2019

With 4 semi-finalists already clear, one of the semi-finalists India will be locking horns against Sri Lanka in what would be the final league match for both teams in this World Cup. The fixture will be played at Headingley in Leeds.

India with a win here will move up to the top spot in the points table which will definitely help their confidence to boost up. As far as Sri Lanka are concerned, they have nothing to lose as their chances of finishing among the top 4 are over.

Their last meeting in an ICC event took place in the ICC Champions Trophy 2017 which saw Sri Lanka securing an upset win over India by 7 wickets where they chased down a total in excess of 300.

Best Performance in the World Cup:

India: Champions in 1983 and 2011 editions.

Sri Lanka: Champions in 1996 edition.

Match Schedule

Sri Lanka vs India

Venue: Headingley, Leeds

Time: July 06, 03:00 PM

Head to Head in ODIs

Matches: 158

Sri Lanka won: 56

India won: 90

Tied: 01

No result: 01

The conditions at the Headingley, Leeds

With a warm and sunny day predicted for the whole day, the pitch would be good for batting, however, the surface will likely slow down as the match progresses.

Matches: 46

Won batting first: 16 (39%)

Won batting second: 25 (61%)

No Result: 05

Tied: 00

Highest Total: 351/9 (50 Ov) by ENG vs PAK, May 19, 2019

Lowest Total: 92/10 (36.2 Ov) by ENG vs AUS, June 18, 1975

300+ Totals: 07

400+ Totals: 00

SL vs IND Dream11 Team News

• Mayank Agarwal has joined the Indian squad as a replacement for injured Vijay Shankar.
• India opted for three seamers in the last match, they could well go with the same combination once again.
• Sri Lanka are coming into this match after securing a win over Windies courtesy Avishka Fernando’s maiden ton.
• They opted for Kasun Rajitha in place of Suranga Lakmal and Jeffery Vandersay for Jeevan Mendis.
• Both went for plenty of runs which might force team management to bring in Suranga Lakmal for Rajitha.

SL vs IND Playing 11 (Expected)

Sri Lanka XI – Dhananjaya de Silva, Lasith Malinga, Angelo Mathews, Isuru Udana, Kasun Rajitha/Suranga Lakmal, Avishka Fernando, Kusal Perera, Kusal Mendis, Dimuth Karunaratne, Jeffrey Vandersay/Milinda Siriwardena, Lahiru Thirimanne

India XI – Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Dinesh Karthik/Kedar Jadhav, Rishabh Pant, MS Dhoni, Mohammed Shami, Yuzvendra Chahal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Hardik Pandya, Lokesh Rahul, Jasprit Bumrah

Players in focus

Virat Kohli

• The Indian skipper has already scored 5 half-centuries on the trot in this World Cup.
• He averages 59.08 against Sri Lanka and has scored 11 fifties and 08 hundreds from 45 innings against them.

Rohit Sharma

• The Indian opener is on to of the pile for the leading run-getters in this World Cup. He has already scored 4 centuries in this World Cup.
• From 44 innings against Sri Lanka, he has managed 1562 runs at an average of 44.62.

Mohammad Shami

• Shami is the leading wicket-taker for India in this World Cup with 14 scalps to his name.

Jasprit Bumrah

• Bumrah who got a 5-fer in the last match against Bangladesh has now 14 scalps to his name in this World Cup.

Avishka Fernando

• Fernando took just 3 innings to get to his maiden World Cup ton.
• He has 183 runs to his name from just 3 innings.

Dimuth Karunaratne

• The Lankan skipper Dimuth Karunaratne has got 212 runs to his name from 6 innings in this World Cup.

Lasith Malinga

• The veteran bowler has scalped the most no of wickets for Sri Lanka in this World Cup, i.e. 12.
• In 39 matches, Malinga has scalped 43 wickets against this opposition.

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