Sl VS ENG 1st ODI Dream11 team and playing xi

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* Sri Lanka will host to England in the first of five one day matches at Dambulla.

ENGLAND Team news for Dream11 player-

*England will miss the services of Liam Plunkett, their leader of pace attack while D Willey is also not available.

*England team has won the practice match quite comfortably thanks to fifties of Joe Root and Eoin Morgan while their spinners also bowled well.

*Alex Hales is expected to miss out as England is preferring Jason Roy over him.

*Jonny Bairstow and Jason Roy will open the batting attack ..Both are very good batsman and are in very good form..Form of J Bairstow is very impressive as he is scoring in almost all the matches with a good strike rate.

*Joe Root will bat at 1 down..He is the one of the best batsman of world cricket and team's most of the hopes of playing spin will depend on him only.

*E Morgan,B Stokes and Jos Buttler will handle the middle order .Currently Jos Buttler is in form of his life while Ben Stokes and Eoin Morgan are also good batsman..Morgan scored 91 runs in practice game.

*Moeen Ali and C Woakes will do late hitting duty.

*Adil Rashid will lead the spin attack along with Moeen Ali..Both will play a crucial role as Srilankan pitch generally favours spinner. Moeen Ali took 3 wickets in practice match while Adil Rashid is in good form.

*Chris Woakes will lead the pace attack along with Mark Wood...Woakes is a very good bowler while Mark Wood generally beat batsman with his pace.Ben Stokes will assist them.

*3rd pace bowler place will be toss up between Curran brothers.. Any one of Tom and Sam can play

SQUAD:

Jason Roy, Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root, Eoin Morgan, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood, Olly Stone, Alex Hales, Sam Curran, Tom Curran, Liam Dawson

Sri Lanka team news for dream11 player-

* Sri Lanka have omitted their most celebrated cricketer Angelo Matthews from the squad due to fitness issues. Dinesh Chandimal will lead the side.

* Sri Lanka lost to Bangladesh and Afghanistan and eliminated from the group stage of Asia cup. They are determined to put up a fight at home and show what they're capable of.

* Kusal Mendis is dropped from the squad after a series of ducks in the Asia cup. Tharanga and Kusal Perera are likely to open the innings with Dickwella coming in at #3.

* Kasun Rajitha called up as a injury replacement for the Lankan Seamer Suranga Lakmal. He is likely to settle for a place on the bench with Chameera and Malinga are likely to lead the bowling attack

Squad:

Niroshan Dickwella, Kusal Perera, Upul Tharanga, Dinesh Chandimal(w/c), Dhananjaya de Silva, Dasun Shanaka, Thisara Perera, Akila Dananjaya, Lakshan Sandakan, Lasith Malinga, Nuwan Pradeep, Kasun Rajitha, Amila Aponso, Dushmantha Chameera, Sadeera Samarawickrama

Pitch report and ground info-

Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla

Pitch is expected to be neutral .

Total matches 56
Matches won batting first 25
Matches won bowling first 29
Average 1st Inns scores 217

Average 2nd Inns scores 182

Dream11 info :

most run in this ground-

upul Tharanga -545 run - avg 24
T perera - 169 run - avg 16
N Dickwella - 135 run - avg 45
D Chandimal - 270 run - avg 54

Most wicket in this ground -

L Malinga -21w
T Perera - 14w
A Dananjaya - 6w

Last 3 match for Sri Lanka-

AFG- 249/10 (T Perera - 5w)
SL- 158/10

BAN-261/10(L Malinga -4w)
SL-124/10

SA-121/10(A Dananjaya -6w)
SL-299/8

Sri Lanka Dream11 Playing XI-