Sri Lanka grabbed two West Indies wickets in the afternoon session before rain washed out play for the rest of the second day in the third and final test at Pallakele on Thursday.
The visitors lost Shivnarine Chanderpaul for 54 and Dwayne Bravo for a duck before the weather intervened with West Indies 244 for five.
Brendan Nash was unbeaten on 62 and Carlton Baugh hadn't scorerd.
