Pasindu Sooriyabandara played one Ravindra Jadeja ball back onto his own stumps, and Niroshan Dickwella edged an innocuous Mohammed Siraj delivery down the leg side to Dhruv Jurel. Within the space of three deliveries, Sri Lanka were seven down with the scoreboard reading 173, and panic would have triggered in the home dressing room.

They had been sitting with their feet up at 122/3 close to Lunch. Key message is whenever we're playing Test cricket, it is a grind.

As the boys walked in there, I said to them that it was a proper day of Test cricket, and this is how we're going to learn. Morne Morkel | Team India's bowling coachThere were plenty of oohs and aahs between those two events, but India were made to work hard.

The odd ball gripped, a fair few turned, but Sri Lanka adeptly countered the challenge posed by the trio of Manav Suthar, Ravindra Jadeja and Saransh Jain. India let the game drift away with open fields in the second session and then towards the end when Sonal Dinusha frustrated the visitors with the tail.

The tail came back to sting India, again, but it hurt the most on Tuesday as it didn't allow India another crack at Sri Lanka in fading light. For most of that period, the attention focused on getting rid of Lahiru, while Sonal continued his ways in a rather comfortable and open field setting.

Result: They have already survived over 15 overs and look in no mood to throw their wickets away. A ground staff member walks on rain covers deployed on the ground as rain stops play on day 3 of the 2nd Test match between India and Sri Lanka, at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground in Colombo on Tuesday.

(ANI Photo) For Morkel, it was a tough day of Test cricket, and he feels this experience will build character within the team for bigger challenges." Key message is whenever we're playing Test cricket, it is a grind.

As the boys walked in there, I said to them that it was a proper day of Test cricket, and this is how we're going to learn. We always talk about bowling and partnerships.

We always talk about creating pressure, you know, and this is how you learn it... when there's a partnership going, you can break it."

The key is to find that breakthrough, and then how well can you start your next 10, 15 balls to the next better. And that is the young guys coming in, that is what they are going to experience and I welcome conditions and tough times like this because that's what builds character and that's how you're doing it great.

So keep on rolling your best ball. That's all the role in partnerships.

And find ways to be creative to maybe get us that sneaky one. We've got lucky that we have 500 on the board," said Morkel on the day India had.

The equation and match situation is simple for India: Bowl out Sri Lanka as early as possible, enforce the follow-on and be ready to go hard at them again. There will be situations like the evening hour on both days, and it is up to the bowlers now to ensure they earn enough time to find those 12 wickets and seal a 2-0 series win.

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