🏏Cricket World Cup 2023: Match #33: IND vs SL, Thread 2, Page 153 - Page 8

Srilanka won the toss and will bowl first.

Sri Lanka have won the toss and have opted to field

SL won the toss and have opted to bowl

As usual, Rohit lost the toss and SL opted to field first/ in a way, it is a good decision for India!!!!

Sri Lanka have won the toss and have opted to field

SL didnt make a mistake

Rohit wanted to bat first anyways.

Same team as last game.

Kusal Mendis: We are going to bowl first. I think the pitch will be better for batting in the second part. Everyone did their best in the last few games. Hopefully they will continue to do the same today. One change, DDS is not playing, Hemantha is playing.

Rohit Sharma: Would have batted first. Obviously some assistance to start with but under lights there will be good assistance for our pacers. Great honour, great moment to lead the team. It's important for us to no get carried away by the performances we put in. Same team as the last game.

India vs Sri Lanka mostly has been dramatic at the World Cups. When these two teams met first in 1979, Sri Lanka upstaged an upset and defeated the more fancied India. Cut to 1996, the Jayasuriya-Kaluwitharana storm was blowing away opponents and so they did against India as well in one of the league games. In the semis, they met again. India dismissed the duo without anything on the board but Aravinda De Silva showed his prowess. A burning Eden pretty much showed the angst of the public by the end of the game. India reversed the tide in 1999 as Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid took the Lankan attack to the cleaners. 2003 World Cup also saw India handing out a shellacking to the Lankans. But 2007 saw Lankans oust India of the WC as they defeated the 2003 finalists in a crucial league game. 2011 was the show piece encounter. India vs Sri Lanka at the Wankhede in the finale. India came out triumphs and the World Cup returned to India after 28 years. 2019 was the first team when it seemed that Lanka wasn't a match anymore to this Indian outfit and India won it easy. 2023?

Kusal Mendis: We are going to bowl first. I think the pitch will be better for batting in the second part. Everyone did their best in the last few games. Hopefully they will continue to do the same today. One change, DDS is not playing, Hemantha is playing.

Originally posted by: Rosyme

Srilanka won the toss and will bowl first.