5 reasons why India shouldn't take Sri Lanka lightly

#4 Good bunch of spinners

Lakshman Sandakan

Sri Lanka have spinners like Lakshman Sandakan, Malinda Pushpakumara, and Dhananjaya De Silva in their squad to face India in the upcoming ODI series.

A good way to curb the attacking batsman from India would be to stem their scoring and in that regard bowlers like Pushpakumara and Sandakan can prove to be very effective as they generally tend to keep to a line and length and get the odd ball to turn thus causing some trouble for the batsmen.

Sandakan proved in the test match that he can trouble the Indians as he was able to get many balls to spin sharply and as a left arm leg spinner, he will add the much-needed X-factor to this Sri Lanka bowling line up. He was also impressive in the ODI series against Zimbabwe, and is one bowler who should be persisted with.

The captain needs to make proper use of him and more importantly, use him as an attacking option and not a bowler to contain the Indian batters. The spin trio could put the breaks in scoring which in modern times is one form of attacking the opposition.