The hosts swept the two-match collection in Galle 2-0, recording their a hundredth Test win and leaving the vacationers nonetheless in the hunt for a primary victory in cricket’s longest structure.
Harry Tector fought a lone last-day rearguard motion to take a look at to bat out a draw, scoring 85 and mounting a 41-run stand for the 9th wicket, however Mendis took 5-64 as Ireland have been bowled out for 202 of their moment innings.
Asitha Fernando bowled Tector with a yorker to finish the resistance and accounted for final guy Ben White with the very subsequent ball to wrap up every other emphatic win in taste.
The guests posted 492 of their first innings — a number of the highest-ever ratings to be adopted via an innings defeat.
After Sri Lanka declared on 704-3, Ireland resumed their moment innings on 54-2, hoping to carry on for a draw on a monitor nonetheless just right for batting.
But Jayasuriya pushed aside Paul Stirling within the fourth over of the morning to transform the fastest-ever spinner to take 50 wickets, in simply seven Tests.
Fellow left-armer Alf Valentine of the West Indies had taken 8 video games to the milestone greater than seven many years previous.
Mendis got rid of first-innings centurion Curtis Campher when he swept one immediately into the palms of Kusal Mendis at leg-slip, and took his 3rd wicket of the innings when captain Andy Balbirnie drove one immediately to Angelo Mathews at mid-off on 46.
Mendis then pushed aside Andy McBrine and Graham Hume in successive overs to say his fourth five-wicket haul.
Sri Lanka received the primary Test via an innings and 280 runs.