Sri Lanka chose to bat in a sunny morning in Galle and put on their first 50-plus opening stand in Tests since 2014 AFP
But Kaushal Silva's woes at the top continued as he edged Kemar Roach to the wicketkeeper in the 18th over for 17 AFP
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Lahiru Thirimanne was dropped by Darren Bravo in the 38th over, but fell two overs later to Bishoo AFP
The hosts didn't lose any more wickets during the day though as Dinesh Chandimal and Dimuth Karunaratne slowly but steadily negated the spin on a low, slow Galle pitch AFP
A back-tracking Jerome Taylor parried an easy catch that could have seen the back of Chandimal Associated Press
It proved costly, as Chandimal went of to make his fifth half-century of the year Associated Press
Karunaratne got to his century with a six over cow corner, as the duo upped the scoring rate towards in final session of the day to finish strongly on 250 for 2 by stumps Associated Press
