India v Sri Lanka, ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 – Match 33
November 1, 2023
2 pm local time
Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

IND vs SL, World Cup 2023 Match 33: Live score

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IND vs SL, World Cup 2023: Toss and live updates

Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bowl.

IND vs SL, World Cup 2023 Match 33: Team news

Hardik Pandya has been ruled out of the fixture, and possibly for India’s next group stage game against South Africa as well, as he continues to recover from an ankle injury. Mohammed Shami put in a spectacular performance against England, feeding calls for him to stay in the XI even once Hardik returns. Nevertheless, with their seaming all-rounder still unavailable India are likely to field an unchanged XI.

After the high of their win against England where Angelo Mathews starred, Sri Lanka are coming off the back of a loss to Afghanistan, and need to win this game to realistically keep their semifinal hopes alive. They have been plagued with injury throughout the tournament, and are almost at the point of fielding a reserve-XI.

Among the possible changes to Sri Lanka’s side, the most likely is to bring in Dunith Wellalage, the 20-year-old who last played in their game against Australia, for Dhananjaya de Silva. De Silva is wicketless with the ball and hasn’t found his rhythm so far with the bat in the tournament.

India vs Sri Lanka: Playing XIs

India

Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj.

Sri Lanka

Pathum Nissanka, Dimuth Karunaratne, Kusal Mendis (c&wk), Sadeera Samarawickrama, Charith Asalanka, Angelo Mathews, Dushan Hemantha, Kasun Rajitha, Maheesh Theekshana, Dilshan Madushanka, Dushmantha Chameera.

Match prediction: Who will win today’s IND vs SL match?

It’s hard to look past the dominant hosts doing what they’ve done to every team in their past so far to struggling Sri Lanka. While India go in as strong favourites, don’t count Sri Lanka completely out of it. Their four points mask the good cricket they’ve often played so far in this tournament. While underdogs, they could give India a good game.