Third Test, Colombo (day four): Sri Lanka 396 & 123-2 beat India 249 & 161-5 by eight wickets
Sri Lanka win series 2-1 Scorecard
Malinda Warnapura and skipper Mahela Jayawardene shared a century stand as Sri Lanka beat India by eight wickets to win their three-Test series 2-1.
Warnapura (54) and Jayawardene (50) put on 101 to see their side Late wickets give Sri Lanka edge ...
21 killed in Sri Lanka mine attack on bus ... home on 123-2 in the final session in Colombo.
India were earlier dismissed for 268 in their second innings despite a fighting 61 not out from VVS Laxman.
Spinner Ajantha Mendis took 3-81 to end the series with 26 wickets at a cost of only 18 runs each.
Mendis only took one of the five Indian wickets to fall on the fourth day, but it was a vital one as he had Rahul Dravid caught at slip by Jayawardene for 68, thereby ending a sixth-wicket partnership of 85 with Laxman.
India captain Anil Kumble followed for nine when he was leg-before to Muttiah Muralitharan, but the home side had to wait until after the lunch interval to polish off the tail.
Harbhajan Singh hit five fours in a bright and breezy 26 before he was lbw to Chaminda Vaas and Zaheer Khan departed for a duck soon after as he was run out by Thilan Samaraweera's direct hit as he attempted a single after a mis-field.
Muralitharan finished India off by having last-man Ishant Sharma taken at leg-slip by Warnapura for figures of 3-99, his 756th victim in Tests.
Faced with such a modest target, Sri Lanka made a poor start as Michael Vandort was bowled for eight by an arm-ball from off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, who had to open the bowling because Sharma was carrying an injury and only batted with the aid of a runner.
First-innings centurion Kumar Sangakkara managed only four this time before failing to get over an attempted drive and giving a catch to mid-off from the bowling of Zaheer Khan.
It provided the final glimmer of success for India, who have not win a series in India since 1993, as Warnapura reached fifty off 92 balls and Jayawardene followed him by square cutting Sourav Ganguly for four to end the match.
(BBC)
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