Sri Lanka , meanwhile, need to brush up on their T20 skills as they prepare to host a global men's ICC competition for the first time since 2012. The days of Sri Lanka being a team of freewheeling mavericks at the cutting edge of the format are long gone. Stats and triviaEngland have played six T20Is in Sri Lanka, but five of them came at the 2012 World T20. Sri Lanka's most-recent victory in a home T20I series was in October 2024, when they beat West Indies 2-1. Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka on selection at the top of the order