Complete fixtures of the Nidahas Trophy 2018 announced

The series commences on March 6.

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Team India is all set to lock horns with their neighbors Sri Lanka yet again. Over the last six months, the two sides have already competed a lot. And now, the fixtures for the Nidahas Trophy 2018 have been announced. The series will see 7 T20Is played in the month of March this year. Nidahas Trophy will be a tri-series that will involve Bangladesh as the third team in the series.

Each team will play against one another two times before the top two sides lock horns in the finals. Nidahas Trophy was last played about 20 years ago. The trophy marks the celebration of the Sri Lankan independence. The 2018 edition of the series will mark the 70 years of celebration of the Sri Lankan independence.

It is worth noting that the last time these three sides had clashed in a T20I competition, it was in the ICC World T20 in India in 2016. The Indian side was the most successful among the three in the tournament as they had ended up as the semi-finalists. Prior to that, these three sides had also participated in the Asia Cup 2016.

In that tournament as well, it was the Indian team that had bagged the top honors with the title win. In the recent times, both Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have been struggling with form. On the contrary, barring the current South African tour, team India has a purple patch to boast about.

Interestingly, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are currently involved in an ODI tri-series in Bangladesh which had Zimbabwe as the third side. Sri Lanka recently suffered a shock defeat against Zimbabwe in one of the fixtures of that series.

Going by the current form of the three sides, one would expect Virat Kohli’s men to emerge out victorious in the tri-series in March. Having said that, one can never rule out Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Here are the complete fixtures of the Nidahas Trophy 2018:

March 6, 2018 – India vs Sri Lanka
March 8, 2018 – India vs Bangladesh
March 10, 2018 – Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh
March 12, 2018 – India vs Sri Lanka
March 14, 2018 – India vs Bangladesh
March 16, 2018 – Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh
March 18, 2018 – Final

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