Sri Lanka beat India by three wickets in the third and final one-dayer to lose the series 1-2 here on Friday.
Chasing 227 for a win under D/L calculations, Sri Lanka reached the target with 48 balls to spare. They reached 227 for 7 in 39 overs.
<h2>Chahar scalps three</h2>
Opener Avishka Fernando top-scored with 76 while one-down Bhanuka Rajapaksa contributed a 56-ball 65 to help Sri Lanka script the win. For India, Rahul Chahar was the most successful bowler with three wickets for 54 runs. The match was reduced to a 47-over-a-side affair after rain interruption in the first innings.
<h2>Shaw scores 49</h2>
Opting to bat, India were all out for 225 in 43.1 overs. <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/prithvi+shaw-all">Prithvi Shaw</a> (49), Sanju Samson (46) and <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/Suryakumar+Yadav-all">Suryakumar Yadav</a> (40) were the notable contributors but none could score big.
For Sri Lanka, Akila Dananjaya and Praveen Jayawickrama took three wickets apiece.
India have already clinched the three-match series after winning the first two matches.
Earlier, with the series pocketed, India coach Rahul Dravid rejigged the bowling line-up along with a couple of changes in the batting order, but it was evident that the lack of game awareness became their undoing on the day.
The rain-break at the end of the 23rd over, which reduced the game to 47-overs per side, helped the home team.&nbsp;
The pitch suddenly had a bit of freshness and the ball would both grip and skid, making life easier for the spinners, who rocked the middle-order.
The latest trend of young batters not being able to cope up with slow bowlers was on show as the middle-order looked clueless against left-arm spinner Jayawickrama (3-59 in 10 overs) and off-spinner a Dananjaya (3-44 in 10 overs), who, in his second spell, blew away the lower middle order with turn and bounce.
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<h2>Brief scores</h2>
<h2>India 225 in 43.1 overs</h2>
(P Shaw 49, S Samson 46, S Yadav 40; A Dananjaya 3-44, P Jayawickrama 3-59, D Chameera 2-55) lost to&nbsp; Sri Lanka 227-7 in 39 overs (A Fernando 76, B Rajapaksa 65; R Chahar 3-54, C Sakariya 2-34) by 3 wickets (D/L method)
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