Aditya J: "It just started raining very heavily here in Switzerland which has ruined my plans to go to the once in 10 year Baden festival. You are all very welcome, Indian Fans! I chose to take one for the team."

Vinod Ahir is counting his chickens already: "Technically India 6/0 in 3 overs."

7.15 pm Reports trickling in that the groundstaff are venturing back out to see what they can do. The BCCI are tweeting that the covers are coming off

7.00 pm Quick update, as we lose the first 15 minutes of the chase. The DLS revised targets for India will be 227 off 45 overs, 215 off 40 overs, 200 off 35 overs, 184 off 30 overs, 164 off 25 overs and 141 off 20 overs.

Chinmay: "200 in 35, 227 in 45!? Time for universities to offer specialisation in DLS as a course ?"

Elsewhere in the world, Pakistan have confirmed a T20 series in Lahore with a World XI. Faf du Plessis, the South African Test and T20 captain, will lead a side that will play three matches, accorded international status, with Pakistan next month.

Dilip Purohit: "What if they start a 20 over game at 9:55 PM, and then the rain interrupts again. Will they resume the 20 over innings tomorrow? or restart the full 50 over innings?" It seems likely that they will only play it as a 20-over chase.

The rain has dampened the spirit in Kandy, so here is something fresh to read from our friends at ESPN.in. Viswanathan Anand discusses world affairs and politics with Garry Kasparov and his experience on playing rapid chess, the T20 version of chess.

6.40 pm The chase should be starting in about five minutes, but it's not going to happen. We can hang around doing nothing for one hour before overs start getting reduced. The cut-off time for a 20-over game is 9.55 pm. Also the host broadcaster just said we have a reserve day, so if today's play is washed off, India and Sri Lanka come back to the stadium tomorrow to pick up where they left off. That is, we will only get through the second innings of this game.

Sundar: "So, ICC tournaments do not have rest days except for the final, but meaningless & highly onesided ODI series between India & SL do? What has the world come to! "

Siddharth: "Is rain here to stay? Or are they passing showers? So that I can schedule a meeting here in my office accordingly." I'm squinting into the tv monitor, while juggling weather websites on my computer, but it doesn't look that terrible

Vishnu Sarda: "@Siddharth, are you really going to shuffle your meetings for one sided match like this? Do you have any openings in your company boss?"

Bad news people, the ground has disappeared under the covers with some rain in the air

NprabathK: "what do you mean bad news ?. It's the best news we fans have heard in weeks. Both cricket-wise and weather-wise. "

Harnam: "Rain may actually be a blessing here. Target of 150 in 20 overs will make this contest very entertaining"

6.03pm Another terrible batting performance from Sri Lanka. So much so that they may not have had 200 had it not been for a fine performance from Milinda Siriwardana. India dominated through the innings again, save for that sixth-wicket stand between Siriwardana and Kapugedara. Sri Lanka will need something special to stay in this game against a strong India batting order.

Bhuvi will finish.

The yorker not far away