Sri Lanka coach Trevor Bayliss told journalists to expect an improved performance from his team in the third and final Test match that gets underway here in Mumbai on Wednesday.

After a high scoring draw in Ahmedabad, Sri Lanka suffered their heaviest Test defeat against India when they went down by an innings and 144 runs, inside four days in Kanpur, last Friday.

Coming from back to back home series wins against Pakistan and New Zealand, Sri Lanka came into the three match series in India as the number two ranked team, searching for the number one spot in world cricket and their first Test win in India.

Although the number one rank is out of the equation after their heavy defeat in Kanpur, Sri Lanka still has an opportunity to win their first Test in India.

"When we came here, we thought if we can win a Test match, we had a chance of winning the series. We still want to win a Test match here. The boys are disappointed with the show in Kanpur. I am sure they will come up fighting in the next Test and show what a good team we are," Bayliss told journalists.

India’s batsmen posted three centuries and two half-centuries in their total of 642 all out, but in both innings, the Sri Lankans managed just a solitary half-century.

"Everyone is aware that given the way the lower order guys batted with Thilan Samaraweera, who obviously is a quality player, we could have done better. The way Mendis batted, when a number ten hangs around for that long, it shows that had the top order guys fought a little bit harder, we could have taken the game a little bit longer. You have to give Mendis full credit for the way he went about it."

After being bowled out for 229 runs in the first innings, Sri Lanka were asked to follow-on and by lunch on day four, they had lost eight wickets for 208, but the ninth wicket stand between Ajantha Mendis and Thilan Samaraweera, who added 73 runs in over one and half hours, frustrated the Indians.

Bayliss was also asked why the Review System, where an on field umpiring decisions can be challenged and asked to be reviewed by the television umpire that is in place for the current series involving Pakistan and New Zealand and Australia and West Indies was not in place in India.

Responding, the Sri Lanka coach said that his team was all for the Review System. "Sri Lanka were all in favour of it. You have to ask someone else," he said.