Sri Lanka swept West Indies aside with a second Test Match win to secure the series, following a 72-run win before tea on the final day, despite four sessions being washed out.
The home side headed into the series against West Indies without former captain Kumar Sangakkara, now retired coach Marvan Atapattu, after he resigned. They had also lost two home Test series in a year for only the second time, but they rallied at the P Sara Oval.
Milinda Siriwardana, whose 68 in the first innings turned out to the top score in the match, picked up three wickets in the final innings to trigger the slide. West Indies began the day at 20 for 1 but the visitors were skittled for 171, with Sri Lanka's lead spinner Rangana Herath claiming four wickets.
West Indies had begun the day brightly amid overcast conditions, before letting the advantage slip away. Their innings followed a similar pattern with one batsman making a fifty - Darren Bravo in this case - and the others departing cheaply.
Herath engineered a double-strike in his fourth over after lunch to remove Denesh Ramdin and Bravo. Jomel Warrican, one of the few positives in an otherwise dark series for West Indies, summoned some late blows in a last-wicket partnership of 33 to only delay Sri Lanka's victory.
West Indies had squeezed out 14 partnerships of more than 20 in this series but none of them had passed 50, until the last day of the second Test. Hope and Bravo addressed the issue, adding 60 together, but it was not enough to help West Indies secure their first Test win in Sri Lanka.
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