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The visitors made 393 in the first innings against host Sri Lanka’s total of 306.

Sangakkara played from 2000 till 2015 and scored 12,400 runs in 134 Tests with 38 Hundreds and 52 Fifties with the highest score at 319.

Hereon, it was just a matter of time before Sri Lanka folded out. “That was the whole idea behind it”, Kohli said at the post-match press conference after India’s thumping win in the second Test here. Soon followed a boundary of over throws before the sublime...

A fairytale ending alluded, Sangakkara in his swansong after Sri Lanka suffered an embarrassing 278-run loss to India as the visitor’s levelled the three-match series at 1-1. “The idea is to have Pujara open with Rahul since it’s only one Test. He’s done...

India captain Virat Kohli, whose team lost the first Test, said he was delighted to be playing in Sangakkara’s final match.

The Indian captain will now look to regroup and get spirits up ahead of the start of the second Test from August 20.

India opener Shikhar Dhawan has been ruled out of the rest of the Sri Lanka series with a hairline fracture on his right hand. “It was a poor batting performance in the first innings, but we came back”.

The previous afternoon – in a World Cup final now remembered for Adam Gilchrist’s squash-ball-in-glove heroics, floodlight failures and farcical organisation – Sangakkara and Sanath Jayasuriya had, for just over one quixotic hour, made the impossible seem plausible.

Chandimal’s unbeaten century helped Sri Lanka enforce a turnaround and beat India by 63 runs in the first Test after the hosts being in the dumps for the major part of the match.

Dhawan, who scored a smashing 134 in the first innings of the Galle Test and did not field for a majority of Sri Lanka’s second innings.

Having won the curtain-raiser match of the current series against India at Galle, the second Test starting at the P Sara Oval on Thursday is one game the Lankans cannot afford to lose.

As Sri Lanka prepare for a memorable farewell for veteran batsman Kumar Sangakkara, India will look to regroup and avenge the loss in the first Test when they square up for the second of the three-match series at the P. Sara Oval from Thursday.

Indian Test skipper Virat Kohli and team director Ravi Shastri has showered praise on Sri Lankan veteran batsman Kumar Sangakkara who will retire after the 2nd Test match between India and Sri Lanka, BCCI.TV reports.