India vs Sri Lanka, 1st ODI team news: Suryakumar Yadav, Kishan to make debuts; Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav to play together
India vs Sri Lanka, 1st ODI team news: Shikhar Dhawan-led and Rahul Dravid-coach Team India handed out debut caps to Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan. Moreover, Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav are set to feature together in an ODI for the first time since the 2019 ICC World Cup.
Team India will bowl first in the first ODI in Colombo against Sri Lanka and the management have handed debut caps to middle-order batsman Suryakumar Yadav and wicketkeeper-batsman Ishan Kishan.
The two players, who also play for together for the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL) also made their T20I debuts together when Virat Kohli and Co. inducted them into the national side during the T20I series against England. Both batsmen had a great first outing with the bat, smashing quick-fire half-centuries.
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At the toss, Dhawan revealed that attacking batsman Prithvi Shaw will open with him. Moreover, Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav will finally feature together for the first time since the 2019 ODI World Cup. They last played against England, a game India lost.
As it turns out, there is another first for another India player. Shikhar Dhawan is captaining the Indian team for the first time and he has become the oldest ODI captain for India at the age of 35.
Dhawan is leading the side absence of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, who both are in the UK for the upcoming five-match Test series against England.
The swashbuckling left-hander lost his first toss but he has a few milestones awaiting him with the bat.
Dhawan currently has 5,977 runs in the ODIs. If he manages to score 23 runs, he would reach the 6,000-run mark, becoming only the 10th Indian batsman to reach the milestone.
Dhawan would also become the 2nd quickest Indian to reach the feat, with Virat Kohli leading the charts in the list of fastest Indian batsman to reach 6,000 ODI runs. While Kohli achieved the feat in 136 innings, Dhawan would reach the mark in his 140th innings. It had taken Ganguly 147 to reach the same mark.
In addition to this, Dhawan needs 35 more runs to complete 10,000 International runs. If he does so, he will become the 14th Indian batsman to achieve the landmark.
Should the swashbuckling left-hander get those 35 runs, he will become the sixth-fastest batsman to reach 10,000 international runs. The quickest was Kohli, who breached the mark in 232 innings. Second in the list is Sunil Gavaskar, having crossed the figure in 243 innings. Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, and Rahul Dravid round up the top 5 with 253, 256, and 257 innings respectively.
Team India playing XI: Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ishan Kishan, Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav