The Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka from 28 January to 10 February 2009. The tour included five ODIs and one T20I. India won the ODI series 4-1 and also the T20I.
Squad
India's squad for the ODI series was announced on 18 January. It was Ravindra Jadeja's maiden call up to the national Indian squad. Praveen Kumar also returned after being dropped for the home ODI series against England. Kumar and Jadeja replaced Harbhajan Singh who was injured and Virat Kohli who was dropped in favour of the all rounder Jadeja.Jadeja earns call-up, Praveen returns, After the first ODI Munaf Patel sustained a groin injury and Lakshmipathy Balaji was called up to the squad after a four-year hiatus having last played for India in 2005.Balaji replaces injured Munaf for SL tour,
Sri Lanka announced their squad for the first three ODI's on 26 January. The squad was unchanged from the one that toured Pakistan.Sri Lanka unchanged for first three ODIs,
ODIsT20Is Mahela Jayawardene (c) Kumar Sangakkara (vc, wk) Sanath Jayasuriya Upul Tharanga Jehan Mubarak Chamara Kapugedera Tillakaratne Dilshan Thilina Kandamby Muttiah Muralitharan Ajantha Mendis Farveez Maharoof Dilhara Fernando Nuwan Kulasekara Thilan Thushara Angelo Mathews MS Dhoni (c, wk) Virender Sehwag (vc) Sachin Tendulkar Gautam Gambhir Yuvraj Singh Suresh Raina Rohit Sharma Yusuf Pathan Zaheer Khan Ishant Sharma Munaf Patel Ravindra Jadeja Praveen Kumar Irfan Pathan Pragyan Ojha Lakshmipathy Balaji Tillakaratne Dilshan (c) Chamara Kapugedera (vc) Sanath Jayasuriya Jehan Mubarak Chamara Silva Indika de Saram Lasith Malinga Dilhara Fernando Farveez Maharoof Kaushalya Weeraratne Malinga Bandara Jeevantha Kulatunga Dilhara Lokuhettige Mahela Udawatte Thilan Thushara MS Dhoni (c, wk) Yuvraj Singh (vc) Virender Sehwag Gautam Gambhir Suresh Raina Rohit Sharma Yusuf Pathan Zaheer Khan Ishant Sharma Ravindra Jadeja Praveen Kumar Irfan Pathan Pragyan Ojha Lakshmipathy Balaji
ODI series
1st ODI
2nd ODI
3rd ODI
4th ODI
5th ODI
T20I series
Only T20I
References
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