Sri Lanka were put in to bat on a sunny morning in Pallekele, on a pitch which had something to offer to the seamers. The teams made four changes each, and one of the new faces - Rahat Ali - had Kaushal Silva caught behind for 9 in the fifth over AFP
Upul Tharanga - playing his first Test after a year - began the rebuilding process with Dimuth Karunaratne, as the pair took Sri Lanka to lunch unscathed save the early dismissal AFP
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Yasir Shah made inroads into the Sri Lanka middle order after lunch, claiming three scalps, two of them to exuberant strokes which were poorly executed AFP
On the other end of the scale, Karunaratne was skipping down the track and going back as he milked the spinners, striking a few delectable drives in between AFP
Karunaratne and Jehan Mubarak added 67 runs for the fifth wicket and drove Sri Lanka into a dominant position, but Mubarak got out at an inopportune time. Karunaratne moved on to his second Test century - a show of extreme diligence and determination - and was out for 130. Sri Lanka ended the day on 272 for 8 AFP
