India chose to bat vs Sri Lanka

Shubman Gill had no hesitation in batting first, and his counterpart Dhananjaya de Silva conceded he would have done the same. With a bit of cloud cover and some grass on the surface, Dhananjaya was however hopeful of making use of any early movement on offer.

The weather to start things of in Colombo is bright and sunny, though there is some rain expected across this Test. It’s hot and humid as well, even more so than in Galle, which means that the surface is expected to be on the drier side. The SSC surface usually starts to take turn pretty soon in any case.

Sri Lanka XI: 1 Lahiru Udara, 2 Kamil Mishara, 3 Kamindu Mendis, 4 Dhananjaya de Silva (capt.), 5 Sonal Dinusha, 6 Pasindu Sooriyabandara 7 Niroshan Dickwella (wk), 8 Keshara Nuwantha, 9 Prabath Jayasuriya, 10 Asitha Fernando, 11 Lahiru Kumara

India XI: 1 KL Rahul, 2 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 3 Devdutt Padikkal, 4 Shubman Gill (capt.), 5 Rishabh Pant (wk), 6 Dhruv Jurel, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Manav Suthar, 9 Saransh Jain, 10 Mohammed Siraj, 11 Prasidh Krishna