The visitors brought in Vandersay and Liyanage for Jayawickrama and Mishara
Toss Sri Lanka chose to bat vs India
Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka chose to bat first in the third and final T20I in Dharamsala. India captain Rohit Sharma, who plays his 125th game in the format and becomes the most-capped player in T20I history, said he would have chosen to chase anyway if he had won the toss.
All four replacements were bowlers – wristspinners Ravi Bishnoi and Kuldeep Yadav, and fast bowlers Avesh Khan and Mohammed Siraj. This meant India would have a shorter batting line-up, with Harshal Patel slotted at No. 7. Sanju Samson is set to keep wickets in Kishan’s absence, and the official team sheet also had him opening the batting alongside Rohit.
Sri Lanka made two changes, bringing in the legspinner Jeffrey Vandersay and the batter Janith Liyanage in like-for-like swaps with the left-arm spinner Praveen Jayawickrama and Kamil Mishara.
India already have an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series.
India: 1 Rohit Sharma (capt), 2 Sanju Samson (wk), 3 Ishan Kishan, 4 Deepak Hooda, 5 Ravindra Jadeja, 6 Venkatesh Iyer, 7 Harshal Patel, 8 Kuldeep Yadav, 9 Avesh Khan, 10 Ravi Bishnoi, 11 Mohammed Siraj.
Sri Lanka: 1 Pathum Nissanka, 2 Danushka Gunathilaka, 3 Charith Asalanka, 4 Janith Liyanage, 5 Dinesh Chandimal (wk), 6 Dasun Shanaka (capt), 7 Chamika Karunaratne, 8 Dushmantha Chameera, 9 Binura Fernando, 10 Jeffrey Vandersay, 11 Lahiru Kumara.
Karthik Krishnaswamy is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo