India Vs Sri Lanka 3rd ODI: Spinners Jayawickrama, Dananjaya help hosts bundle out India for 225

The rain-break at the end of the 23rd over, which reduced the game to 47-overs per side, helped the home team. 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.

Colombo: India's young batsmen paid for their profligacy and inexperience as Sri Lanka's spinners made the best use of a rain break to dismiss the visitors for a lowly 225 in 43.1 overs in the third and final ODI here on Friday. Following rain interruption, the revised target for Sri Lanka is 227. 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.