Colombo, Aug. 25 -- Sri Lanka are looking to avoid the follow-on as Sonal Dinusha and Keshara Nuwantha have added unbeaten 43 runs for the eighth wicket to keep the hosts alive in the second Test match in Colombo.

At the Tea break on Day 3, Sri Lanka are 216/7 after 65 overs and still trailing by 287 runs. They still need to score 87 more runs to avoid the follow-on.

In the second session, skipper Dhananjaya de Silva and Pasindu Sooriyabandara started off fresh, but Manav Suthar dismissed the Lankan captain in the 35th over.

Sooriyabandara added 80 runs from his side before Ravindra Jadeja bowled him in the 45th over.

Niroshan Dickwella followed him in the very next over when Mohammed Siraj got him caught out by Dhruv Jurel for a duck...