Sri Lanka Board President's XI v West Indians

At Colombo (SSC), October 9-11, 2015. Drawn. ‡West Indians 209 (65.3 overs) (C. R. Brathwaite 54; S. Randiv 5-73); Sri Lanka Board President's XI 455-7 (107 overs) (M. D. U. S. Jayasundera 142, M. B. Ranasinghe 101, T. A. M. Siriwardene 105*). Both sides chose from 15 players. The West Indians made hard work of their only warm-up game, in which all three days were affected by the weather. First they slipped to 136-8, before No. 10 Carlos Brathwaite smacked four sixes in his 54; then,afterKemarRoachtookwicketswiththefirsttwoballsofthereply,threeofthePresident'sXI batsmen made centuries. Test prospect Udara Jayasundera put on 214 with 20-year-old Minod Bhanuka Ranasinghe, a left-hander with only two first-class matches under his belt, then Milinda Siriwardene made a successful Test case of his own, scoring 105*.