Colombo, Aug 3 (IANS) Scoreboard at the close of the opening day’s play in the third and final cricket Test between Sri Lanka and India here Tuesday.

Sri Lanka first innings:

Tharanga Paranavitana c Dhoni b Sharma 8

Tillekaratne Dilshan run out (Vijay/Dhoni) 41

Kumar Sangakkara c Sehwag b Ojha 75

Mahela Jayawardene lbw Ojha 56

Thilan Samaraweera batting 65

Angelo Mathews batting 26

Extras (b 4, lb 2, w 2, nb 14) 22

Total (for four wickets in 86.5 overs) 293

Fall of wickets: 1-15 (Paranavitana, 3.6 overs), 2-102 (Dilshan, 24.3), 3-157 (Sangakkara, 42.4), 4-241 (Jayawardene, 72.6)

Bowling:

Abhimanyu Mithun 17.5-2-57

Ishant Sharma 15-4-49-1

Amit Mishra 25-1-99-0

Pragyan Ojha 26-2-78-2

Virender Sehwag 3-0-4-0

Toss: Sri Lanka won the toss and opted to bat

Umpires: Simon Taufel (Australia) and Rod Tucker (Australia)

TV umpire: Kumara Dharmasena

Match referee: Andy Pycroft (Zimbabwe)