It was a triumphant beginning for India's new skipper mentor pair in Pallekele, with Suryakumar driving from the front with a rankling 22-ball fifty in India's 43-run win in the principal T20I. Indeed, even with 213 sudden spikes in demand for the board, the Indian bowlers turned upward against it particularly when Pathum Nissanka was out there in the center, however a dazzling breakdown of 9 for 30 from Sri Lanka gave the guests an agreeable success eventually. Riyan Parag, India's 6th bowler on the evening, expected to bowl just 8 balls and wrapped up with figures of 3 for 5. What was the contrast between the sides? It was maybe the way that tenacious India were with their going after batting in the wake of being placed in to bat. Imagine a scenario in which Shubman Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal looked really great for half-hundreds of years, both the openers batted at a strike-pace of 200 and sewed the ideal camoes, playing to the requests of present day times and conveying the very sort of start that India would have expected of them. Assumed control over made the most of the center overs, which implied that Matheesha Pathirana's four-wicket attack in the passing overs was securely represented. And afterward there was additionally this little matter of handling slips from Sri Lanka, in both getting and ground handling, which permitted India to breath simple each time they were under the siphon. Brief Scores: India 213/7 (Yadav 58, Pant 49; Pathirana 4-40) beat Sri Lanka 170 all out in 19.2 overs (Nissanka 79, Kusal 45; Parag 3-5, Arshdeep 2-24, Patel 2-38) by 43 runs