Nidahas Trophy 2018, 1st T20I: 5 things that went wrong for India

#5 Poor bowling at the death

Yuzvendra Chahal removed Upul Tharanga with Sri Lanka requiring 39 off 32, and the game was still on, especially with Dasun Shanaka struggling to put bat on ball. The situation would have compounded further had Thisara Perera, their experienced T20 campaigner, been unable to bring out his golf-style strokes at the end.

Jaydev Unadkat, short on experience but bathing in IPL cash, was chosen to bowl the 18th over, but could not get his lines right, feeding Perera full deliveries that the left-hander hammered down to put the run-rate in place, just in time.

By the time Shardul Thakur came to bowl the penultimate over, the die was already cast, and the rest of the runs were lapped up quickly. If only a certain Jasprit Bumrah was in the line-up!