5 reasons why India won the T20I series against Sri Lanka

The Indians started out the T20I series against Sri Lanka as clear favourites and did not disappoint as they wrapped it up 2-1 in Visakhapatnam yesterday. After the shocking defeat in Pune where the Indian batting had a rare failure, India showed character and resilience to fight back in the series.Though this was a weak Sri Lankan side, there were a lot of positives for the Indian team from this series going into the Asia Cup and the ICC World T20. India will be heartened by their powerful display and try to take the positives into the more important upcoming tournaments.Here are 5 reasons why India won the T20I series against Sri Lanka.  

#1 Inexperienced Sri Lankan batting

Sri Lankan batsmen were found struggling against the Indian bowlers (Image courtesy: BCCI)

To be honest, no one gave the Sri Lankans the ghost of a chance as they embarked on this short tour to India. India had found some form of late and was coming back home on the back of a successful 3-0 routing of the Aussies in the T20I series Down Under.

High on confidence, India even chose to rest their most in-form player, Virat Kohli, for this series. Sri Lanka on the other hand, were coming in with a young and inexperienced squad heavily dependent on the likes of Chandimal and Dilshan.

Many were surprised by their gutsy performance in the first T20 but eventually, it was their lack of experience that cost them the series.

In the 3rd T20I for instance, against an Ashwin bowling with his tail up, the Sri Lankan batsmen went for too many reckless shots and lost their wickets in the process. A little more application while batting would have done them no harm.