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The Sri Lankan cricket team arrived in Mumbai on Sunday afternoon with the captain Kumar Sangakkara promising their best in an attempt to conquer "the last frontier". Sri Lanka have yet to win a Test in India in 14 attempts but Sangakkara backed them to break a winless, 27-year streak.

"We know we are good enough to win and match India if we really wanted to, " he told Cricinfo before departing from Colombo. "We've just got to be tough as possibly as we can both mentally and physically if we are going to do well.

"We can go as all our teams have done in the past and come back and say well it's still unchanged or we go out there and give everything we got and win the last frontier for us in India and then take confidence from that and move onto the one-day series."

Sri Lanka's last Test series in India ended in another loss - they were drubbed 6-1 in the one-day leg - and before the 2007 World Cup Sri Lanka were beaten 2-1 in a four-game ODI series.

This series, from November 8 to December 27, begins with a three-day warm-up game against the Board President's XI at Mumbai's Bandra-Kurla Complex before the first Test in Ahmedabad, starting November 16. The second Test will be in Kanpur before the teams head back to Mumbai for the third game. The city's regular venue, the Wankhede Stadium, is currently being renovated for the 2011 World Cup.