Dhananjaya de Silva, Dinesh Chandimal stand between India's victory

New Delhi, Dec 6 (CRICKETNMORE) - Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja scalped an early wicket of Sri Lanka batsman Angelo Mathews but Dhananjaya de Silva (72 batting) and Dinesh Chandimal (27 batting) denied India any more inroads, helping their side to

Dhananjaya, however, played cautiously meddling the loose balls to eventually bring up his third Test half-century with a boundary off India's premier spinner Ravichandran Ashwin.

The right-hander smashed nine boundaries and one six in his 128-ball innings. 

The wicket of Mathews brought in skipper Chandimal, fresh from his 164 in the first essay. The wicketkeeper-batsman relied more on defence and kept playing the perfect second fiddle to Dhananjaya.

However, just at the stroke of lunch, Chandimal survived a close call after he was clean bowled by Jadeja, which the television replays found the Saurashtra left-arm spinner bowling a no-ball.

Brief Scores: Sri Lanka 119/4 (Dhananjaya de Silva 72 not out, Dinesh Chandimal 27 not out; Ravindra Jadeja 3/25) against India 563/7 decl and 246/5 decl. at lunch.