Summary The West Indies will resume after the break needing a further 132 runs with six wickets in hand.
COLOMBO (AFP) - Left-arm spinner Milinda Siriwardana grabbed two wickets to help Sri Lanka turn the screws on the West Indies on the final day of the second Test in Colombo on Monday.
The tourists, who resumed at 20-1 chasing a victory target of 244, lost three wickets in the space of 22 runs before going to lunch at the P. Sara Oval on 112-4.
Darren Bravo kept the West Indies afloat with an unbeaten 55 that contained three boundaries and two sixes. Former captain Denesh Ramdin was the other batsman at the crease on four.
The West Indies will resume after the break needing a further 132 runs with six wickets in hand.
When play started after the entire fourth day was washed out, the unbeaten pair of Bravo and Shai Hope easily negotiated the Sri Lankan bowlers to carry the score to 80-1.
Siriwardana broke the 60-run stand by having Hope stumped for 35 soon after Bravo had celebrated his half-century with two sixes off Rangana Herath.
Off-spinner Dilruwan Perera removed Marlon Samuels for six through a catch by Angelo Mathews, before Siriwardana trapped Jermaine Blackwood leg-before for four.
Sri Lanka won the first Test in Galle by an innings and six runs to take the lead in the two-match series.
