Youth Test ends in thrilling draw

But the Indian pace duo of Atul Singh 3/39 and Chama Milind 2/41 had other plans as the Lankans lost their last five wickets for just 21 runs to enforce the follow-on. On a placid track,10 more wickets to to win the match looked hard. But they came tentalisingly close. Singh 2/38,Milind 2/46,Kuldeep Yadav 2/100 and Shreyas Iyer 2/22 shared eight wickets between them to bring India within sniffing distance of a win,which was not to be.

With Sri Lanka down at 241 for nine,still needing six more runs to avoid an innings defeat,the last-wicket pair of Mendis and Jayasinghe batted out 55 balls to save the match.

Brief Scores: SL 256 amp; 264/9 S Samarawickrama 88,T Sumanasiri 62; Shreyas Iyer 2/22; Ind 503/7 decl.