Rohit Sharma-led Indian men’s cricket team will face Sri Lanka in a three-match ODI series. The 50-over matches between India and Sri Lanka are scheduled to take place at the iconic R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on August 2, 4, and 7. In the last ODI match played between the two teams on Sri Lankan soil, India dismissed the Islanders for 50 runs in the Asia Cup 2023 final and then went on to win the premier continental event by 10 wickets.
The world No. 1 ODI team would like to come up with big shows in the coming three matches against the injury-hit Sri Lankan side, which went down by a margin of 0-3 in the three-match T20I series last month.
Ahead of the start of the India-Sri Lanka ODI series, here’s a look at how these two teams have fared against each other in the 168 matches played against each other so far and who the top performers and record holders are.
- Most wins: India (99 wins in 168 ODIs).
- Highest total: 414 for 7 in 50 overs by India in Rajkot on December 15, 2009.
- Lowest total: 50 all out in 15.2 overs by Sri Lanka in Colombo on September 17, 2023.
- Biggest win (by runs): India beat Sri Lanka by 317 runs in Thiruvananthapuram on January 15, 2023.
- Biggest win (by wickets): India beat Sri Lanka by 10 wickets in Sharjah (April 8, 1984 and September 17, 2023).
- Most runs: 3113 runs in 84 ODIs by Sachin Tendulkar (India).
- Highest score: 264 from 173 balls by Rohit Sharma (India) in Kolkata on November 13, 2024.
- Highest batting average (min 10 ODIs): 69.43 by Shikhar Dhawan of India (1111 runs in 19 matches).
- Highest strike rate (min 250 balls): 115.27 by Thisara Perera of Sri Lanka (332 runs).
- Most 100s: 10 centuries in 53 ODIs by Virat Kohli (India).
- Most 50s: 19 half-centuries in 67 ODIs by MS Dhoni (India).
- Most ducks: 7 ducks in 89 ODIs by Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka).
- Most sixes: 50 sixes in 52 ODIs by Rohit Sharma (India).
- Most sixes in an innings: 12 sixes by Rohit Sharma during his 208-run knock in Mohali on December 13, 2017.
- Most runs in a series: 373 runs in six matches by Mohammad Azharuddin (India) during the India tour of Sri Lanka in 1997.
- Most wickets: 74 wickets in 63 ODIs by Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka.
- Best bowling figures: 7 for 30 in 10 overs by Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka) in Sharjah on October 27, 2000.
- Best bowling average (min 1000 balls): 20.61 by Ajit Agarkar of India (49 wickets in 25 ODIs).
- Most five-wicket hauls: 2 in 23 ODIs by Robin Singh of India.
- Most wickets in a series: 15 wickets in five ODIs by Jasprit Burmah during the India tour of Sri Lanka in 2017.
- Most dismissals: 96 (71 catches, 25 stumpings) by MS Dhoni in 67 matches.
- Most catches: 38 catches in 87 ODIs by Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka).
- Highest partnership: 318 runs for the 2nd wicket between Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid in Taunton on May 26, 1999.
- Most matches: 89 by Sanath Jayasuriya of Sri Lanka.
- Most wins as captain: 25 wins in 41 ODIs by MS Dhoni (India).
If India manages to get the better of Sri Lanka in at least one match of the upcoming series, then it will become the first team in history to secure 100 wins against one team in ODIs.
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