The left-handers were accurate and quick through the air and the debutant off-spinner looked an honest trier with little variety to trouble batters at this level. On a pitch that got slower as the match progressed, the fast bowlers struggled to get the ball up towards the batters’ shoulders

After being asked to follow-on, Sri Lanka batters Sooriyabandara (92), Mendis (55) toil hard to post 229-6 and gain 16-run lead; Shubman Gill’s tweakers will have to wrap it up early on Day 5 in bid to seal series sweep