Which was the most surprising series win in Lanka for you (Test/ODI/T20)?

[Texan]

In other words, which series were you not expecting India would sweep?

 

Test 3-0

ODI 5-0

T20 1-0

 

[Forever Indian]

None is the actual option I was looking for.

[Laaloo]

None

 

The CT loss to these minnows was embarrassing

[Texan]

43 minutes ago, Forever Indian said:

None is the actual option I was looking for.

In retrospect you can say that, but not many would have honestly predicted this kind of a result.

[Ankit_sharma03]

39 minutes ago, Texan said:

In retrospect you can say that, but not many would have honestly predicted this kind of a result.

Those many didnt see the SL-Zimb series

[Forever Indian]

46 minutes ago, Texan said:

In retrospect you can say that, but not many would have honestly predicted this kind of a result.

The Zim series as well as their only class player Matthews near the end of his career meant they would be barely able to compete. It was completely expected by me.

[Texan]

1 hour ago, Forever Indian said:

The Zim series as well as their only class player Matthews near the end of his career meant they would be barely able to compete. It was completely expected by me.

 

1 hour ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

Those many didnt see the SL-Zimb series

We tend to lose inconsequential matches even to minnow teams, so a performance as dominant as this one is a change from the past. Look at our own performances in Zimbabwe and even on the recent tour of WI 

[OpeningBatsman]

I don't know, but i thought the series went on expected lines, at least for me.

I thought SL would win one ODI here and there and the only way I thought SL could avoid a whitewash in tests was if it rained. 

[Ankit_sharma03]

3 minutes ago, Texan said:

 

We tend to lose inconsequential matches even to minnow teams, so a performance as dominant as this one is a change from the past. Look at our own performances in Zimbabwe and even on the recent tour of WI 

We lost one game, Zimbabwe defeated them in their own home by 3-2 .

Almost gave them a phainty in test cricket as well

[Vilander]

Lots of people here are Nostradamus at hind sight.

[express bowling]

I expected

 

Tests   3-0

ODIs   4-1  

T20I   biggest chance for minnow teams to defeat top teams

 

Very happy to see this ruthlessness by our team.

[Pollack]

7 hours ago, OpeningBatsman said:

I don't know, but i thought the series went on expected lines, at least for me.

I thought SL would win one ODI here and there and the only way I thought SL could avoid a whitewash in tests was if it rained. 

They had a slight chance if some of their players were not injured. Gunathilaka and Asela Gunaratne inclusion could have made it more competitive. But at the end of the day they lack good bowlers. Malinga cannot carry it on his shoulders alone.Those shoulders are drooping.

[CoverDrive]

Test our team is coming of very good wins against much stronger team so was expected to do well. ODIs were surprise as you expect to lose atleast 1 in a long 5 match series. We did come close to losing the second match also

[tweaker]

None

[maniac]

None .....but if I had to pick one for the sake of it,I would  say the T20 because the nature of the format which is a lottery and gives even the weaker teams a chance.

 

Also Srilanka have done well in T20 format against good teams recently

 

India usually has an outdated T20 approach and also we just lost to WI.

 

but given the momentum we had and actually watching some of these mediocre Lankan players in this series it's no surprise 

[Laaloo]

2 hours ago, maniac said:

None .....but if I had to pick one for the sake of it,I would  say the T20 because the nature of the format which is a lottery and gives even the weaker teams a chance.

 

Also Srilanka have done well in T20 format against good teams recently

 

India usually has an outdated T20 approach and also we just lost to WI.

 

but given the momentum we had and actually watching some of these mediocre Lankan players in this series it's no surprise 

I hate one off t20s. We get some lucky wins against piss poor teams and we cant really test our strengths. Thankfully we have 3 t20s against Australia. That should be great. Hopefully we do also bat. Want to see if our middle and lower order can score 200+.

[Gollum]

ODIs and T20. I was 100% sure Cool would single handedly cost us 2-3 matches on his own by his tortoise style batting. But luckily others stepped up and prevented that from happening. We swept them 5-0 and 1-0 in spite of carrying 'you know who', that takes a special effort. Salute to the 10 others .

Edited September 7, 2017 by Gollum

[Tibarn]

The T20 we looked much better than them. I thought that would be our weakest team as it seems like we don't ever select a specialist T20 squad, but rather just use our ODI squad...

 

We already whitewashed in ODIs before, so I don't think much has changed since our previous whitewash.

 

Even our Test 3-0 isn't that surprising considering we could've whitewahsed them last time we toured there as well, if not for a great innings by Chandimal. 

 

I am dreading watching another Ind-SL series, this time at home.  

[jf1gp_1]

ODi for sure. Also expected them to draw one test.