Dinesh Chandimal's brilliant knock has proven to be the difference in this Test match. His knock helped Sri Lanka rise back and Rangana Herath's 7/48, his 22nd five-wicket haul has ensured that Sri Lanka have won a remarkable match by 63 runs.


India had dominated for three days and it slipped away from them in the space of four sessions. At lunch on day three, Kohli let the initiative slip and Chandimal made him pay. His partnerships with Thirimanne, Mubarak and with the tail ensured that Sri Lanka turned a huge 192-run deficit into a 176-run target for India. The Indian batsmen stumbled against the guile of Herath and Sri Lanka have gone 1-0 up in the series. This is the second time that India have lost in pursuit of chasing a target of less than 200. The first instance was against the West Indies in Barbados in 1997, where they were bowled out for 81 in pursuit of 120.





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