Pakistan won the former Test arrangement 2-1 furthermore secured the one-dayers 3-2 to procure a twofold triumph in the island country interestingly since 2006.
Yet, Sri Lanka, the prevailing Scene Twenty20 champions and the top-positioned side in the most brief organization, get an opportunity to rescue pride in the two end-of-visit recreations at the Premadasa stadium.
Both sides wear a crisp look under new chiefs, with sling-arm quick bowler Lasith Malinga driving Sri Lanka and veteran Shahid Afridi assuming control in charge for fifth-positioned Pakistan.
While Malinga has resigned from Test cricket and played in four of the five one-dayers, Afridi has stopped the other two configurations and will show up on the visit.
With the following Scene Twenty20 in India only eight months away, both sides have blooded new players to give them involvement in the subtleties of T20 cricket.
Sri Lanka's 15-man squad incorporates five uncapped players in batsmen Shehan Jayasuriya, Dasun Shanaka and Dhananjaya de Silva, quick bowler Binura Fernando and leg-spinner Jeffrey Vandersay.
Test and one-day regulars Dinesh Chandimal and Lahiru Thirimanne have been excluded, yet prepared seamer Nuwan Kulasekara has been reviewed subsequent to being disregarded for the one-day arrangement.
"We have to get the more youthful unit in the stream with the goal that we have a steady move paving the way to the following Scene T20 and the 50-over World Container past that," Sri Lanka's boss selector Kapila Wijegunawardene was cited as saying in nearby media.
"We have to put them on the ground and perceive how they perform."
Afridi is one of five players set to challenge the T20 arrangement who did not highlight for Pakistan in either the Test or one-day matches.
Left-arm quick bowler Wahab Riaz, sidelined with a broke hand following the second Test, will be supplanted by another left-arm snappy Zia-ul-Haq.
Leg-spinner Yasir Shah, who got 24 wickets in the three Tests, comes back to the Twenty20 fold following four years, while 33-year-old quick bowler Mohammad Irfan has likewise been picked.
Sri Lanka (from): Lasith Malinga (capt), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Kusal Perera, Kithruwan Vithanage, Dhananjaya de Silva, Angelo Mathews, Dasun Shanaka, Chamara Kapugedera, Shehan Jayasuriya, Thisara Perera, Jeffrey Vandersay, Nuwan Kulasekara, Binura Fernando, Chaturanga de Silva, Milinda Siriwardana.
Pakistan (from): Shahid Afridi (capt), Ahmed Shehzad, Nauman Anwar, Mohammad Hafeez, Mukhtar Ahmed, Umar Akmal, Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Rizwan, Sarfraz Ahmed, Yasir Shah, Sohail Tanvir, Imad Wasim, Anwar Ali, Mohammad Irfan, Zia-ul-Haq.