India win ninth consecutive test series as Sri Lanka force draw in Delhi
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India won the three-test series against Sri Lanka 1-0 after the final test between the neighbours ended in a draw at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium on Wednesday.
Chasing 410 to level the series, Sri Lanka finished on 299-5 to secure their second draw of the series. Dhananjaya de Silva was the scorer for the tourists with a defiant 119 before retiring hurt while Ravindra Jadeja (3-81) was the pick of the Indian bowlers.
India's ninth consecutive test series triumph puts them in an elite club which also includes England and Australia.
The teams will now face off in a three-match one-day series beginning in Dharamsala on Sunday.
Roshan Silva scored a fifty in his debut match as he and Niroshan Dickwella steered Sri Lanka towards safety on the final day.
Resuming the final day on a precarious 31-3, Sri Lanka lost Angelo Mathews early in the morning session but de Silva and Dinesh Chandimal resisted India for two hours before the Sri Lanka captain departed.
Playing his first match in the series, de Silva battled cramps to score 119, a knock studded with 15 boundaries and a six off Ravichandran Ashwin, before retiring hurt before the tea break.
Chasing a record-equalling ninth consecutive test series triumph, India tasted success in the sixth over of the day when Mathews was caught in the slip off Ravindra Jadeja for one.
Dropped three times in his first innings knock of 111, Mathews was evidently less lucky in the second, given out to a no-ball which went undetected by umpire Joel Wilson.
Jadeja bowled Chandimal, then on 24, with a drifted, sharply-turning ball but replays confirmed the left-arm spinner had marginally overstepped.
Nimble-footed de Silva did not allow the situation to bog him down and scored freely, especially against the spinners, while Chandimal looked content playing the second fiddle.
Ashwin ended the 112-run partnership when he lured Chandimal out of the crease and spun it past his bat to hit the stumps.
The Sri Lanka captain, who smashed a career-best 164 in the first innings, made 36.
Ashwin had a chance to catch de Silva, then on 121, off his own bowling but the off-spinner spilled the full-blooded drive.
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