Team india register its best in win-loss ratio in calendar year

India beat Sri Lanka by five wickets in the third and final T20 to round off the series and the year in style. India had Sri Lanka struggling, after Rohit Sharma had put the islanders in to bat at the Wankhede Stadium, with the score reading 85/6 after 13 overs. Aided by Asela Gunaratne and Dasun Shanaka, Sri Lanka scampered to 135. With a low total to chase, all India had to do was hold it out without making silly mistakes and that is what the hosts did for the most part. Shreyas Iyer and Manish Pandey’s stand took the game completely away from Sri Lanka’s desperate attempt at grasping it after they had bagged the wickets of openers Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul. In the end, the job was done with four balls to spare and Dinesh Karthik in the middle alongside MS Dhoni. Here are the statistical highlights of the third and final T20 between India and Sri Lanka:

India’s winning margin of 3-0 is their biggest series victory vs Sri Lanka in T20 Internationals. For the second time, they have won all three matches in a bilateral series the first instance being against Australia in Australia in January 2016.

India have won ten and lost four matches out of 14 played against Sri Lanka in T20Is winning % 71.42.

India, for the first time, have won seven successive matches against Sri Lanka between February 12, 2016 and December 24, 2017. This is their joint-best winning sequence against an opponent. They had defeated Australia in seven consecutive matches between October 10, 2013 and October 7, 2017.

In all three formats this year Tests, ODIs and T20Is, India have won 37 matches and lost 12 out of 53 contested. The remaining four could not produce results the win/loss ratio being 3.083. This is their best performance in terms of wins in a calendar year.