Surprising everyone, the Indian and Sri Lankan teams failed to win the first match. The match played at Colombo's R Premadasa Stadium was tied in a thrilling manner. While Sri Lanka never looked in a position to win in this match, Team India came on the verge of victory and turned the match into a tie. About 40 hours after this thriller, both the teams will once again play on the same ground for another such match. Team India will not want to make such a mistake this time and will try their best to win. All eyes are on whether Team India will make any changes in the playing eleven?

In the first match of the series, Team India came out with 5 main batsmen, in which KL Rahul played the role of wicketkeeper. At the same time, two-three main bowlers and 3 all-rounders were part of the team's playing eleven. In the match, all 6 players bowled from the team's side and no one disappointed. During this, Shivam Dubey, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh and Mohammad Siraj also got wickets. The Indian team also bundled out Sri Lanka for just 230 runs.

Will Pant replace KL Rahul?

Despite this, Team India could not chase this score and the reason for that was the failure of the batsmen against Sri Lankan spin.

That is, Team India's batting proved to be weak and if change is needed then it is here but will it happen? If we look at the way captain Rohit Sharma and coach Gautam Gambhir work, then they are not going to make any big changes after just one match. Especially when all the players in the batting order are strong and have done well in the matches played before this, then there is no scope for change after the failure of just one match.

However, in the first match, Team India did not have any left-handed batsman in the top-5 to reduce the threat of Sri Lankan leg-spinner Dunith Vellalaage.

In such a situation, it promoted all-rounder Washington Sundar to number four. In such a situation, there is a case for including Rishabh Pant in the team, but Pant is not expected to get preference over Rahul at the moment. Also, if both are kept, then the team may have to drop one of the all-rounders. After the strong performance of the first match, this would also not be right. In such a situation, Pant will have to wait for the time being and barring the injury situation, Team India can be seen playing in the second match without any change.

India's probable playing 11

Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Shivam Dubey, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh and Mohammed Siraj

India's probable playing 11

Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Shivam Dubey, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh and Mohammed Siraj