The day was a spirit booster for the Caribbean side as they wrapped off the Sri Lankan innings just three runs short to avoid follow on. Their bowlers did a handsome job on the fourth day as Shane Shillingford and Kemar Roach shared seven wickets to help West Indies gain a 202-run lead over Sri Lanka and enforce follow on.
West Indies got their first wicket of the afternoon of Suraj Randiv gifted by Shillingford, later on Dammika Prasad and Jayawardene put up a 72-run stand to help their team along its way for survival. Prasad entertained the audience with his run a bowl 47 run innings including two sweetly struck sixes before Shillingford got rid of him. While Prasad played a beautiful knock and hitting boundaries in regular intervals but just gave his wicket away to Shillingford again when they were 14 runs short to avoid follow on.
Ajantha Mendis was the next man to came and went and soon Sri Lanka ended up just 3 runs short to avoid follow on. The Caribbean skipper took no time to invite the Sri Lankan side to come and bat again. The Sri Lanka openers provided a solid start with both the batsmen making 44 not out at the end of the day with a delicate and sensible batting. Sri Lanka finished on a score of 89/0 with the final day still to go.
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