Date Match Details Time Venue
GMT IST Your Time Ground City
Jun 28 - Fri West Indies v Sri Lanka, 1st Match
West Indies won by 6 wkts 14:30 20:00 07:30 Sabina Park Kingston, Jamaica
Jun 30 - Sun West Indies v India, 2nd Match 14:30 20:00 07:30 Sabina Park Kingston, Jamaica
Jul 02 - Tue India v Sri Lanka, 3rd Match 14:30 20:00 07:30 Sabina Park Kingston, Jamaica
Jul 05 - Fri West Indies v India, 4th Match 13:30 19:00 06:30 Queen's Park Oval Port of Spain, Trinidad
Jul 07 - Sun West Indies v Sri Lanka, 13:30 19:00 06:30 Queen's Park Oval Port of
5th Match Spain, Trinidad
Jul 09 - Tue India v Sri Lanka, 6th Match 13:30 19:00 06:30 Queen's Park Oval Port of Spain, Trinidad
Jul 11 - Thu TBC v TBC, Final 13:30 19:00 06:30 Queen's Park Oval Port of Spain, Trinidad
There is a standing joke about India-Sri Lanka matches that cricket-mates delight in describing and returning to. It includes the two countries playing one another interminably; to such an extent that its difficult to tell one arrangement from an alternate. Then again, in the course of the most recent two years or thereabouts, the quantum of activity between them has descended significantly. They keep going met throughout the tri-arrangement in the West Indies in June-July 2013. So in a few ways, the monotony that encompassed those prior recreations mightn't appear throughout their Asia Cup duel at the Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, here on Friday.
Additionally, a triumph in their individual opening installations may very well persuade them to amp up the exhibitions. In any case, they won't be neglectful of where they happened in the first match. Like case in point, from India's viewpoint, Varun Aaron's rocking the bowling alley. While he is unquestionably snappy, his one-dimensional rocking the bowling alley against Bangladesh on Wednesday — that was intensely dependent on the more full length — ended up being close to cannon grain. That there is little variety as far as length or pace is a certain flame formula for run-releases, especially on the collected surface here.
Ishwar Pandey, the strapping Madhya Pradesh pacer, could be in the settlement. Assuming that captain Virat Kohli finds at cushioning the batting, he may well call upon Stuart Binny's administrations. The last's exact seamers won't be a terrible thought, particularly after the effect Afghanistan's medium-pacer Mirwais Ashraf had on Thursday. Opening slackness. There is additionally the slackness in the opening office that needs amending. Moderate, worked deliberations from Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma like the ones against Bangladesh don't give other batsmen the advantage of propelling strike from a solid base.
Particularly for Sharma's situation, at whatever point he requires some serious energy to bunk in and afterward gets out, the scoring-rate is seriously traded off. It's indeterminate, however, in the event that India might need to swap Sharma with Cheteshwar Pujara. India didn't prepare on Thursday. Then, Sri Lanka is betting on its bowling to go after India's unpracticed center request. "With [m.s] Dhoni not there, we may have a great chance assuming that we can take early wickets," said Sri Lanka's bad habit chief Dinesh Chandimal. Sri Lanka, all things considered, ought to be mindful of how its own particular center request disintegrated after Lahiru Thirimanne and Kumar Sangakkara set things up for a 300 or more sec.