As, Team India beat Sri Lanka by seven wickets in the solitary T20 on Wednesday at RPS, they completed a tour sweep of Sri Lanka in which they first won a Test series 3-0, ODI series 5-0 and now the solitary T20.
Since the advent of 20-over cricket, India are only the second team to have won nine matches in a bilateral tour. The first time this happened in 2009-10, when Pakistan toured Australia . Like India’s tour of Sri Lanka, it consisted of three Tests, five ODI’s and one T20I, all of which Australia won.
Interestingly, Pakistan are the only side other than India who have managed to do win all matches in a tour despite being the away side. They did it the first time while touring Zimbabwe and then while touring Bangladesh in the same year.
In recent times that happened when Bangladesh toured New Zealand in 2016-17. The two sides played four ODIs, three T20Is and two Tests.
Hence, Sri Lanka are only the third team to have suffered a clean sweep at home apart from Zimbabwe and Bangladesh.
