Colombo:&nbsp;Retiring legend Kumar Sangakkara&nbsp;failed to get a big knock in his swansong Test appearance but&nbsp;Sri Lanka overcame an early jolt to reach 140/3 after&nbsp;dismissing India for 393 in the first innings of the second&nbsp;Test here today.
Resuming at the overnight score of 319/6, India were&nbsp;bowled out shortly after the lunch break and the hosts treaded&nbsp;cautiously to keep the match on an even keel at the end of the&nbsp;second day's play.
Opener Kaushal Silva (51 off 117 balls) played a watchful&nbsp;innings to ensure that the early loss of fellow opener Dimuth&nbsp;Karunaratne did not trigger a top-order collapse.&nbsp;His dismissal towards the fag end of the day, however,&nbsp;put the side slightly on the backfoot given that the home team&nbsp;is still 253 runs behind.
Sangakkara was given a guard of honour by the Indians as&nbsp;he walked in to bat when the hosts lost their first wicket&nbsp;with just one run on the board.&nbsp;
However, it did not quite turn out to be a fairytale&nbsp;ending for the veteran batsman, who was dismissed by off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin for 32 after facing 87 deliveries.&nbsp;
After Sangakkara's departure, Lahiru Thirimanne (28&nbsp;batting) and Silva added 39 runs for the third wicket before&nbsp;India took the slight edge by snaring the latter.&nbsp;
When stumps were drawn for the day, Thirimanne and&nbsp;skipper Angelo Mathews (19) were holding fort for the Lankans.
<img title="Umesh Yadav" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2015/aug/yadav21aug.jpg" alt="Umesh Yadav" />Umesh Yadav celebrates Karunaratne's&nbsp;wicket. Pic/ AFP
Earlier, resuming at the overnight score, India were&nbsp;bowled three overs after lunch as Rangana Herath took 4/81.&nbsp;Wicketkeeper-batsman Wriddhiman Saha, who had scored a 60&nbsp;in the first Test, played a 56-run knock to take India past&nbsp;the 350 figure.
The Indians scored at a slow pace in the morning session&nbsp;as Saha shepherded the lower order to avoid a below-par total&nbsp;in the first innings of this match. The visiting side could&nbsp;pull off a mere 67 runs in this first session of play in 23.4&nbsp;overs.
The Indians were in fact lucky to survive on more than&nbsp;one occasion. Saha, on his previous evening's score of 19, was&nbsp;fortunate not to be bowled off the seventh ball of the&nbsp;morning.
Dhammika Prasad (2-84) was the unlucky bowler as the ball&nbsp;kissed the off-stump but didn't dislodge the bail. Six balls&nbsp;later, Lanka did get their first wicket of the morning, with R&nbsp;Ashwin (2) hitting Angelo Mathews (2-24) straight to short&nbsp;extra cover.
Saha survived another close call in the 91st over, Prasad&nbsp;again the unlucky bowler, as his loose shot didn't quite carry&nbsp;enough to the keeper.&nbsp;
TV replays proved sufficient doubt to rule the batsman&nbsp;not out who still hadn't added a single run to his overnight&nbsp;score. He finally got going on the 14th ball he faced while&nbsp;Amit Mishra (24 runs, 50 balls, three fours) joined him at the&nbsp;other end.
The latter too was lucky to survive, without opening his&nbsp;account off 10 deliveries, when in the 94th over, umpire Bruce&nbsp;Oxenford failed to detect a faint edge to the keeper with&nbsp;Mathews the one to miss out on a wicket this time. With these&nbsp;many lives given, it was no surprise that the batsmen decided&nbsp;to settle down and curb their shots, and run scoring was very&nbsp;slow as a result.
Saha and Mishra built a sluggish partnership of 46 runs&nbsp;for the eighth wicket and it helped India cross the 350-mark&nbsp;in the 101st over of the innings.&nbsp;
Just as Mishra looked to open up a bit, he was dismissed&nbsp;caught behind, with Dushmantha Chameera (2-72) getting the&nbsp;breakthrough in the 106th over. Saha then reached his second&nbsp;Test fifty off 106 balls and with Ishant for company, avoided&nbsp;further loss until lunch.
After folding up rather quickly in the post-lunch&nbsp;session, the Indians struck early with the ball but Silva&nbsp;thwarted their visiting bowlers' attempts to run away with the&nbsp;advantage. After tea, Silva and Sangakkara looked to continue their&nbsp;partnership for the second wicket, while cutting down on the hiccups. But they were only able to add 10 runs to their&nbsp;teatime total, when R Ashwin (1-37) dismissed the left-hander&nbsp;for the third successive time in this series.&nbsp;
Ajinkya Rahane held a dipping catch to his left as&nbsp;Sangakkara walked off to a standing ovation.&nbsp;Silva then put on 39 runs for the third wicket with&nbsp;Thirimanne as India bowled with pacers from one end, while&nbsp;Ashwin continued from the other.&nbsp;
Surprisingly the off-spinner was already into this 12th&nbsp;over while Amit Mishra (1-9) had only been given one over&nbsp;before the tea break. 
Meanwhile, the right-handed opener moved&nbsp;along slowly and scored his ninth Test fifty off 92 balls as&nbsp;the Lankan 100-mark came up in the 36th over.&nbsp;He could do no more though as Mishra came on to bowl, and&nbsp;dismissed him soon after, the batsman caught at short fine leg&nbsp;as he tried to go for a sweep. 
Skipper Mathews then joined in and put on an unbeaten 26&nbsp;runs for the fourth wicket with Thirimanne. India rotated&nbsp;their bowlers till the very end, but were unable to get a&nbsp;breakthrough even as nine overs were lost in the day's play.

Retiring legend Kumar Sangakkara&nbsp;failed to get a big knock in his swansong Test appearance but&nbsp;Sri Lanka overcame an early jolt to reach 140/3 after&nbsp;dismissing India for 393 in the first innings of the 2nd Test at Colombo on Friday

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