India to startup New Year with three T20I against Sri Lanka from Jan 5

In cricket,
India will kick off the New Year with three T20 Internationals against Sri
Lanka from 5th of January. The series will end on 10 th of January. The opening
match of the T20 series will be played at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium in
Guwahati. The match will begin at 7 p.m.

Sri Lanka
comes into the match on the back of a 3-0 whitewash against Australia in their
last series. India rounded off a successful 2019 with a limited over series win
over the West Indies at home. Venues for the matches are: 

• January 5, Venue: Baraspara Stadium,
  Guwahati

• January 7, Venue: Holkar Stadium,
  Indore

• January 10, Venue: MCA Stadium, Pune

Squads:

India: Virat
Kohli (captain), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (wk),
Ravindra Jadeja, Shivam Dube, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah,
Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur, Manish Pandey, Washington Sundar, Sanju Samson.

Meanwhile,
adequate security arrangements have been made by the administration to avert
any disruption in view of anti-CAA protests in Assam.