Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi dedicated to the nation a new campus building complex of the Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU) in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
In the first match of the series against Sri Lanka in Lucknow Rohit Sharma once again became T20I cricket's leading run-getter by going ahead of Martin Guptill's 3299 runs. Following these two is Virat Kohli with 3296 runs.