Angelo Mathews won a crucial toss and chose to bat first in the first Test between Sri Lanka and India in Galle.

 

This is the final match Kumar Sangakkara will be playing in Galle, where he started his test cricket career fifteen years ago.

 

Sangakkara came back into the side to play his penultimate Test match, and the veteran spinner Rangana Herath's comeback also pointed at a turning track.

 

Upul Tharanga and Suranga Lakmal made way for them, and Lahiru Thirimanne retained his place.

 

Keeping a spinning track in mind, India stacked their side with three spinners, which meant leg spinner Amit Mishra came back to play his first Test in four years.

 

Mishra had happy memories of Sri Lanka: the last time he played there, in 2010, he was part of a Test win, at P Sara Oval in Colombo. Umesh Yadav made way for the extra spinner.

 

The only change in the Indian side was the comeback of KL Rahul, who had missed the Bangladesh Test because of dengue. He replaced Murali Vijay, who now has a hamstring injury. India kept persisting with Rohit Sharma at No. 3 ahead of Cheteshwar Pujara.

 

Sri Lanka 1 Kaushal Silva, 2 Dimuth Karunaratne, 3 Kumar Sangakkara, 4 Lahiru Thirimanne, 5 Angelo Mathews (capt), 6 Dinesh Chandimal (wk), 7 Jehan Mubarak, 8 Dhammika Prasad, 9 Tharindu Kaushal, 10 Rangana Herath, 11 Nuwan Pradeep

 

India 1 KL Rahul, 2 Shikhar Dhawan, 3 Rohit Sharma, 4 Virat Kohli (capt), 5 Ajinkya Rahane, 6 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 7 R Ashwin, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Ishant Sharma, 10 Varun Aaron, 11 Amit Mishra

(With inputs from espncricinfo)