Indian bowlers struck early as Sri Lanka slipped to 99/5 at lunch on day three of the first Test after the visitors posted 462 in their first innings in Galle on Monday.
Sri Lanka are trailing by 363 runs with two full sessions of play remaining.
Mohammed Siraj (1/12) dismissed Nishan Fernando for a duck in the opening over, while Manav Suthar (2/17) removed Dinesh Chandimal and Lahiru Udara to reduce Sri Lanka to 53/3.
Kuldeep Yadav (1/25) also to make it 59/4.
Kamindu Mendis (14) and Udara (27) offered brief resistance, but Suthar broke the third-wicket partnership to leave Sri Lanka in trouble.
Earlier, India, resuming at 460/9, were bowled out for 462 in 116.4 overs, with Devdutt Padikkal’s 167 being the cornerstone of their innings. Prabath Jayasuriya was Sri Lanka’s best bowler with 4/109.
Play resumed on Monday after two sessions were washed out by rain on Sunday.
Kuldeep is back in the attack and after a dot, Dinusha takes a single to sweeper cover.
Dickwella is off the mark with a sweep through to fine leg for a four.
Short ball next and Dickwella hangs back and cuts late through backward point for a four.
Two dots to end the over as 9 runs come off it. That is lunch on Day 3.
Niroshan Dickwella is the new man in and he plays out five dots in the over.
Jadeja continues and he strikes first ball as de Silva gets the outside edge off the ball that turns away and KL Rahul does well to take a low catch at slips and the Sri Lankan captain is back in the hut for 21. The umpire checks for clean catch and the replays show it is clean. Sri Lanka now 5 down.
Krishna continues and Dinusha and de Silva take 6 runs in the over as the SL captain gets a boundary in the over.
Jadeja continues and he gives just one in the over as Dinusha takes a single and de Silva is tested.
Krishna is back in the attack and he comes around the wicket to Dinusha who takes a single to square leg off the short ball.
De Silva then gets the inside edge past the stumps for a single.
Two dots later, Dinusha nudges the ball to fine leg for a single. Leg bye called.
A dot to end the over as 3 come off it.
Jadeja is back in the attack and he starts with one that turns aways sharply from the right hander.
De Silva then plays a dot before the good length ball is creamed through covers for a four!
Three dots to end the over as 4 runs come off it.
Suthar is back in the attack and after a dot, he strays and de Silva clips the ball through mid-wicket for three runs.
Dinusha plays three forward defences next, before he is beaten on the inside edge off a leg side delivery. 4 runs come off the over.
Kuldeep continues and Dinusha looks to slog sweep first ball and the top edge falls in no man’s land and he gets a single.
De Silva then drives the ball through the off side and the ball beats a diving Siraj at deep mid-off and runs to the boundary for a four.
Two dots later, de Silva is beaten on the outside edge as he plays for the turn but the ball goes straight past his bat to the keeper.
Two dots to end the over as 5 runs come off it.
Ravindra Jadeja is in the attack now and after three dots, Dinusha takes a single to backward square leg. Two dots to end the over as just one comes off it.
Kuldeep continues and Dinusha takes a single as just one comes off the over.