Sri Lanka captain Thisara Perera won the toss and elected to bowl against India in the first Twenty-20 cricket International of the three-match series at Cuttack.Left-arm seamer Vishwa Fernando makes his T20I debut for Sri Lanka.Like the ODI series, Rohit Sharma is leading the Indian side in the absence of regular skipper Virat Kohli.Team India, which had clinched the Test and ODI series against the Lankans, will be aiming to extend their dominance in the shortest format as well.India have played five T-20 series this year. It won three of them, suffered a loss in one and drew one. India lead the head-to-head record in T-20s against Sri Lanka, 7-4.