Sri Lanka vs West Indies, 2020: 2-match T20I series – Statistical Preview

After being whitewashed in the 3-match ODI series, the West Indies now look to win the T20I series at least in their tour of Sri Lanka. West Indies missed out on two close matches during the ODI series which stopped them from winning their first ODI on the Sri Lankan soil in nearly 15 years. West Indies will be strengthened in the T20I series with the inclusion of Andre Russell, Dwayne Bravo and Shimron Hetmyer. Sri Lanka, on the other hand, will be led by Lasith Malinga but will miss the services of Nuwan Pradeep who performed well in T20Is during the tours of Pakistan and Australia.

All the key stats and numbers ahead of the 2-match T20I series between Sri Lanka and West Indies:

1 – Sri Lanka and West Indies faced off only once in a bilateral series in the T20I format – The 2-match series in 2015 in Sri Lanka which ended with a scoreline of 1-1.

1/12 – Sri Lanka has won only one T20I match since the start of 2019 under the captaincy of Lasith Malinga. The speedster led Sri Lanka in 12 T20Is out of which they lost 9 matches in this period. One game ended in a Tie which they lost in Super over and the other game was washed out before the first ball was bowled.

Sri Lanka won six out of ten T20Is under Malinga’s captaincy before 2019. Malinga’s first four T20Is as captain resulted in wins including the first three at their victorious 2014 edition of the WT20.

5 – West Indies have not won any of the five T20I series they played since the start of 2019. They lost all the four series played in 2019 and drew the recent T20I series at home against Ireland by 1-1. The West Indies team managed to win only three of the 15 matches they played across those five series.

6-3 – Sri Lanka has a win-loss record of 6-3 against West Indies in the T20I format. However, the West Indies team were victorious during the last two T20I meetings against the Lankans. The 2012 WT20 final was the only defeat across the seven T20I matches for Sri Lanka until the start of 2015 against West Indies.

6 – Sri Lanka has not won any of their last six matches in the T20I format as they were whitewashed during the 3-match T20I series in Australia and lost by 0-2 margin during the 3-match T20I series in India.

Sri Lanka managed to win only one of their last seven series in the T20I format – 3-0 win against Pakistan in Pakistan last year.

495 – Dwayne Bravo needs five more wickets to become the first player to claim 500 wickets in the Twenty20 format. Lasith Malinga is 2nd on the list of leading wicket-takers in the T20 format with 389 wickets.

9966 – Runs Kieron Pollard has aggregated in the Twenty20 format thus far. He needs 34 more runs to become the 2nd player to score 10000 T20 runs after Chris Gayle (13296).