India will play T20 tri-series involving Sri Lanka, Bangladesh in March 2018
The 2018 Nidahas Trophy is a twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka from March 06 to March 18, 2018. This is a tri-nation series between Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka. Each team will play each other twice, with two teams enters the final, based on earned points. 2018 Nidahas Trophy organized in celebration of Sri Lanka’s 70th year of independence. India and host Sri Lanka will play in the series opener.
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) board preponed the tournament by two days, they will now be able to host the final on Sunday as compared to the earlier schedule which had the final slated for Tuesday. The tournament comprising seven games is being conducted to celebrate Sri Lanka’s 70th year of independence.
Nidahas Trophy Schedule as follow:
Date: March 06, 2018
Match: India vs Sri Lanka, 1st T20I
Venue: R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Time: 01:30 PM GMT, 07:00 AM IST
Date: March 08, 2018
Match: India vs Bangladesh, 2nd T20I
Venue: R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Time: 01:30 PM GMT, 07:00 AM IST
Date: March 10, 2018
Match: Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka, 3rd T20I
Venue: R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Time: 01:30 PM GMT, 07:00 AM IST
Date: March 12, 2018
Match: Sri Lanka vs India, 4th T20I
Venue: R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Time: 01:30 PM GMT, 07:00 AM IST
Date: March 14, 2018
Match: Bangladesh vs India, 5th T20I
Venue: R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Time: 01:30 PM GMT, 07:00 AM IST
Date: March 16, 2018
Match: Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh, 5th T20I
Venue: R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Time: 01:30 PM GMT, 07:00 AM IST
Date: March 18, 2018
Match: TBC vs TBC, Final
Venue: R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Time: 01:30 PM GMT, 07:00 AM IST
BCCI rested six experienced players, which include captain Virat Kohli, former captain MS Dhoni, Hardik Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah.
India T20I Squad: Rohit Sharma (c), Shikhar Dhawan (vc), KL Rahul, Manish Pandey, Suresh Raina, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Deepak Hooda, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammad Siraj, Axar Patel, Vijay Shankar, Shardul Thakur, Jaydev Unadkat, Rishabh Pant (wk)
Sri Lanka T20I Squad: To be announced
Bangladesh T20I Squad: To be announced
