After being bundled for 204 in their first innings, spinner Ramesh Mendis (6/70) brought the hosts back into the game on Day 3.
Left-arm spinners Veerasammy Permaul and Jomel Warrican combined for nine Sri Lanka wickets with career-best performances.
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Nissanka, who completed his third Test half-century, and captain Dimuth Karunaratne shared 106 runs for the first wicket before the play was suspended because of bad light in the 35th over.
Resuming Day 5 on 52/6, overnight batters Joshua Da Silva and Nkrumah Bonner defied Sri Lanka for 173 balls as they put up a 100-run partnership in 44.4-overs.
Both the players also skipped the recent T20 series in Bangladesh after the World Cup, which Pakistan won comfortably by a 3-0 margin.
Sri Lanka are just four wickets away from a win, having reduced West Indies to 52/6 at stumps on day four at Galle.
West Indies need 296 runs to win on Day 5 of the first Test.
Only 38 overs were bowled and the better part of two sessions lost as the West Indies resumed on 113-6 in reply to Sri Lanka's 386.
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The 47-year-old left-handed batter, who has played 164 Tests, 268 ODIs and 22 T20Is, scoring a total of 20,988 runs for the West Indies, will join the preparatory camp to be held from November 15 to 28 at the Coolidge Cricket Ground in Antigua.
The automatic qualifiers for the Super 12 stage next year were determined to be the winner and runner-up of the ongoing T20 World Cup, alongside the next six highest-ranking teams.
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Defending champions West Indies were eliminated from the semi-final race in the T20 World Cup after a 20-run loss to Sri Lanka.
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