In the first test against Sri Lanka in Galle, India lost another wicket as it resumed their second Innings play on Thursday with the overnight score 181 for five. The visitors were 257 for 8. Team has a daunting task ahead to save the first cricket Test after spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan scalped six wickets in his last match to put Sri Lanka within sniffing distance of a victory. Muralitharan claimed of 5 for 63 in the first innings and added another wicket in the second to be just two short of the 800-mark as India were skittled out for 276 in their first innings in response to the hosts' total of 520 for eight declared. The visitors lost Gautam Gambhir (0) and first innings centurion Virender Sehwag (31) early but the experienced duo of Rahul Dravid (44) and Sachin Tendulkar (84) steadied the innings to some extent with a 119-run partnership. But both Dravid and Tendulkar's dismissal at the fag end of the day off Lasith Malinga swung the game decisively in Sri Lanka's favour. Then Yuvraj Singh (5) perished just before close of play to compound India's misery.