Given the myriad threadbare India-Sri Lanka contests in recent years, it-s hard to fathom the fact that most of the visiting team have no previous experience of playing in India. They last toured the country for a Test series in 2009. Only Angelo Mathews and Rangana Herath from the current team were part of the series that Sri Lanka lost two-nil. However, in their first competitive outing at the Jadavpur University campus ground here, Sri Lanka did well to acclimatise to unfamiliar terrain with a dominant batting display.

Sri Lanka-s Niroshan Dickwella plays a shot during a warm-up match against Board President-s XI in Kolkata on Saturday. Pic/PTI