India vs Sri Lanka Highlights, IND vs SL 3rd ODI: Wellalage claims fifer as SL beat IND by 110 runs to clinch series 2-0

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: In comes Washington Sundar and does not give anything away. The ball stopping a little and the look on Nissanka’s face tells the story.

Sri Lanka 51/0 after 12 overs.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: Just a little too predictable now from Axar Patel. The ball lands in the slot and Nissanka slog sweeps for a six. This has been a strong start from Sri Lanka. The runs are coming at a good pace as the 50 is up – Nissanka and Fernando’s 4th fifty-plus partnership. India need to find way to end this partnership soon.

Sri Lanka 51/0 after 11 overs.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: Siraj now bowling from the same end as Shivam Dube but there’s not much of a difference. Gets clipped for a couple of runs towards deep square leg and loses his line again next ball to get hit for a FOUR. Tough to believe it’s the same Siraj who has a history of wrecking the Sri Lankan batting. End of the first Powerplay

Sri Lanka 41/0 after 10 overs.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: With two runs in the first two overs, Axar Patel has started brilliantly. The perfect combination of looping the ball and darting it in at the same time. A bit of turn but nothing alarming yet. However, there is some stoppage in the ball as it pitches.

Sri Lanka 34/0 after 9 overs.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: It was only a matter of time. Rohit doesn’t even wait for the first 10 overs to complete before replacing Siraj with Axar Patel. And rightly so. There’s absolutely no assist for Siraj and this is no doubt a surface for the spinners to feast on. Dube meanwhile concedes his first boundary as Avishka Fernando finally gets a connection. His second boundary. Dube is upset as he lets out a scream.

Sri Lanka 33/0 after 8 overs.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: Another clinical over from Dube. Even better to be honest as he constantly attacks the stumps. The odd one just bounces but Nissanka is able to get underneath it. Rishabh Pant for some reason is standing too far, as he would to let’s say Jasprit Bumrah. Just one off the over

Sri Lanka 27/0 after 6 overs.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: There is absolutely no seam or swing movement. Avishka Fernando this time stands and deliver, and Siraj with that look again on his pace. Usual pacer doesn’t seem to be doing the trick at the moment. Much better over this from Siraj but the conditions are such.

Sri Lanka 26/0 after 5 overs.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: Dube starts off with a teeny-tiny appeal. Seemed like an inside edge but the umpires signalled leg-byes. Dube still persisting with that 4th stump line, just pushing the batters into two minds. Should I play, should I leave? Dube doing everything a frontline pacer is asked to. Another tight over; just 2 off it.

Sri Lanka 20/0 after 4 overs.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: Siraj’s length and line slightly off the mark here. A bit too much room given on that occasion and Pathum Nissanka carves it through the off-side, through the fielders for his third four. A bit of a stop in player there. The ball has already taken a boundary and it’s been just three boundaries hit so far. The umpires are giving it a look. Maybe it’s the seam. Play resumed and Siraj strays in line again. Nissanka with another four as he is clipped off the batter’s pads. Everything flying off the bat.

Sri Lanka 18/0 after 3 overs.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: This is interesting. Dube clearly doesn’t have the pace but even with his speed, the batters will find it challenging on a pitch as dry as this one. A couple of military medium pacer on off and middle stump keeps Pathum Nissanka and Avishka Fernando on their toes. Much better over; just two runs off it.

Sri Lanka 10/0 after 2 overs.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: After getting a wicket off the first ball, Siraj gets flicked for a four here to open Sri Lanka’s scoring. Top edge from Pathum Nissanka but has enough to take it to the boundary. Sri Lanka double the boundary count as Nissanka gets another off the legs.

Sri Lanka 8/0 after 1 over.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: Unlike the first two ODIs, Colombo is bright and sunny today. As Pathum Nissanka takes strike, Mohammed Siraj walks in his run up. Remember, he is just the lone specialist seamer in India’s Playing XI. Umpire calls play. Siraj running in.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: Ranjan Madugalle’s contributions being recognised as he officiates his 400th ODI game. What a number. What a guy. After serving Sri Lankan cricket as a player, Madugalle's role as an ICC referee is immense and it is only fitting that someone like India captain and batting great Rohit Sharma is here to present the memento. And here's a coincidence - Madugalle played the 1979 World Cup match where Sri Lanka defeated India.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: One change for Sri Lanka as well, with Maheesh Theekshana and dropping Akila Dhananjaya. SL indeed are going all guns blazing with their spinners. They really want that first series win over India since 1997.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: Quite likely! India have gone ahead with an extra batter, but with Dube not getting the axe, he could very well open the bowling with Mohammed Siraj. If yes, this is a huge gamble, but a test at the same time… just see if Dube is good enough as a bowler at the international level. If he opens the bowling, anything less than bowling 10 overs will be surprising. Love how GG is shaking things up.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: The visual we all felt was inevitable. Riyan Parag gets his maiden ODI cap, confirming his debut in the match. But it's Charith Asalanka, who has won the toss again and opted to bat.

Parag replaces Arshdeep Singh but that't not the only change. Rishabh Pant comes in, KL Rahul goes out. Fresh pitch but another dry deck on offer. A lot more cracks on this one though. Russell Arnold says 'it's a little more challenging for the batters'.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: In both the matches, when Sri Lanka batted first, India had the upper hand, but the lower order resistance shown by the hosts – through Dunith Wellalage's 67 and 39, and Kamindu Mendis' 40, allowed Sri Lanka to get a lot more than India would have expected. In both games, India should not have allowed Sri Lanka to score over 200, but they did and it cost the Men in Blue. India would want to avoid a hat-trick of this Sri Lankan fightback today if it comes down to it.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: In both matches that India have failed to close out, they have chased, which brings the spinners into play. Do India have a better chance of fairing against spin if they bat first? Ummm. Perhaps. Firstly, the pitch would be slightly better to bat on, and the batters can go at their own pace. Later, when it's Sri Lanka's turn to bat, Kuldeep, Sundar and Axar do to the what their spinners have been doing to India - work a spin web.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: Rohit Sharma is back doing Rohit Sharma things. The India captain, with back-to-back half-centuries is the leading scorer of the series with 122 runs, whereas his Sri Lankan counterpart Charith Asalanka is leading the wickets chart with six scalps. Rohit has given his team explosive starts in both the games, but it was Asalanka and his timely strikes that have denied India wins. In the first ODI, Asalanka spoiled India's party, when defending 1 off 14 balls, he dismissed Shivam Dube and Arshdeep Singh off consecutive deliveries to force a tie and in the next picked up the wickets of Axar Patel, Washington Sundar and Mohammed Siraj.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: One can't deny the fact that there's way too much shuffling going around in the Indian batting line-up, starting with Axar Patel's promotion. He has batted above and below KL Rahul in both matches, and while the move has paid off well – Axar scored 33 and 44 – it seems to have unsettled Rahul a bit you've got to believe. Besides, Shivam Dube batted at 8 in the first game and then 4 in the next. Irrespective of whatever the plan seems to be, expect a lot more of it during the Gautam Gambhir era of head coaching.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: Shubman Gill's scores have been disappointing thus far, unbecoming of India's future captain. In fact, in the entire tour of Sri Lanka, Gill has been unable to convert starts. He got 34 and 39 in the T20Is and 16 and 35 in the two ODIs this far. He starts off well but loses steam, more so when Rohit gets out. Whereas how it should have played out is Gill taking the innings deep. Gill hasn't been the same player since his bout of dengue at the 2023 World Cup. But now is the time to go back to early 2023, where he would score runs and pummel centuries for fun. If Rohit gets going, and Gill supports, the Indian batting can look for some assurance.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: Surprisingly, for a change, the Indian team management is publicly acknowledging that yes, there is something wrong. Not everything is right, something that the previous staff were probably hesitant. Abhishek Nayar, one of Gautam Gambhir's assistant coaches, accepted that the batting needs to come good and that there will be discussions about it. Why it's more concerning that this is a fully strong Indian team, whose batters are faring worse than their Sri Lankan counterparts.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: Being one of India's greatest players of spin himself, that his players are not able to wrap their heads around what the Lankan spinners are throwing at them, must be pinching Gautam Gambhir. If you recall India's tour of Sri Lanka in 2008, where Ajantha Mendis was unleashed and he tore through the Indian batting line-up, only Sachin Tendulkar and Gambhir – and Virender Sehwag – to certain extent were able to read him well. Surely, Gambhir is imparting the same knowledge to this Indian team. Washington Sundar confirmed the same when he admitted that the head coach is giving tips to the players to help understand and tackle the Sri Lankan spinners better.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: To be honest, does it even matter? Like honestly, there was rain on forecast during the first two matches as well, a lot more than the 40 percent rain that has been predicted for today. So, does the forecast even have any reliability factor left? Around about this time last year, it was raining cats and dogs in Sri Lanka, with some matches in the Asia Cup getting washed out. This time around though, the rain appears to be a lot less relenting, ensuring a smooth ODI series, barring the one-off delay here and there.

India vs Sri Lanka Live Score, IND vs SL 1st ODI: Virat Kohli… what a game he had on June 29, cementing himself in the annals of Indian cricket by playing a Man-of-the-Match worthy innings in the final of the T20 World Cup and aptly closing his T20 career on a high. However, since his return, Kohli has looked a bit off. Call it ring rust or whatever, in both innings Kohli started off well before falling to spin – Wanindu Hasaranga in the first ODI and to Jeffrey Vandersay in the next. Kohli lacked a bit more assurance in the last game as he looked a bit susceptible against spin. However, all that needs to be put on the back-burner as India have a series to save. Kohli is their greatest batter, and the King needs to stand up and lead from the front to save India a streak that stretches to almost three decades.