Sri Lankan national cricket team in India in the 2015/16 season

The 2015/16 season tour of the Sri Lankan national cricket team to India took place from February 9-14, 2016. The international cricket tour was part of the 2015/16 international cricket season and included three Twenty20s . India won the series 2–1.

prehistory

India previously played a tour in Australia , Sri Lanka in New Zealand . The last meeting of the two teams on a tour took place in Sri Lanka in the 2015 season . The second Twenty20 was originally supposed to take place in Delhi, but it was relocated to Ranchi as it was not approved by the authorities.

Stadion

Pune Ranchi Visakhapatnam

Tour venues

The following stadium was designated as the venue for the tour.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium	Pune	42,000	1. T20
JSCA International Stadium Complex	Ranchi	39,133	2nd test
ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium	Visakhapatnam	30,000	3rd test

Squad lists

Sri Lanka named its roster on January 28, 2016. India named its roster on February 1, 2016.

Twenty20
India	Sri Lanka
MS Dhoni ( K & wk ) Ravichandran Ashwin Jasprite Bumrah Shikhar Dhawan Ravindra Jadeja Bhuvneshwar Kumar Pawan Negi Ashish Nehra Manish Pandey Hardik Pandya Ajinkya Rahane Suresh Raina Rohit Sharma Harbhajan Singh Yuvraj Singh	Dinesh Chandimal ( K & wk ) Dushmantha Chameera Niroshan Dickwella ( wk ) Tillakaratne Dilshan Binura Fernando Dilhara Fernando Asela Gunaratne Danushka Gunathilaka Chamara Kapugedera Thisara Perera Sea ball Prasanna Kasun Rajitha Sachithra Senanayake Dasun Shanaka Milinda Siriwardana Jeffrey Vandersay Shaminda Eranga

Twenty20 Internationals

First Twenty20 in Pune

February 9 scorecard	Pune	India 101 (18.5)	-	Sri Lanka 105-5 (18)
		Sri Lanka wins with 5 wickets

Second Twenty20 at Ranchi

February 12 scorecard	Ranchi	India 196-6 (20)	-	Sri Lanka 127-9 (20)
		India wins with 69 runs

Third Twenty20 in Visakhapatnam

February 14th scorecard	Visakhapatnam	Sri Lanka 82 (18)	-	India 84-1 (13.5)
		India wins with 9 wickets

Web links

Tour on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arun Venugopal: Delhi in danger of losing Sri Lanka T20 ( English ) Cricinfo. January 26, 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
2. ↑ Sri Lanka T20I moved from Delhi to Ranchi ( English ) Cricinfo. January 29, 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
3. ↑ Andrew Fidel Fernando: Dilhara Fernando gets surprise Sri Lanka recall ( English ) Cricinfo. January 28, 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
4. ↑ Virat Kohli rested for Sri Lanka T20s ( English ) Cricinfo. February 1, 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2016.