Sarwan scored his 10th Test century in West Indies' win

West Indies comfortably beat Sri Lanka by six wickets to win the second and final Test at Queen's Park Oval and secure a 1-1 draw in the series.

The home side began the day chasing a second-innings target of 253 to win, and reached it an hour after tea.

Ramnaresh Sarwan led the West Indies with 102 and shared a 157-run fourth-wicket stand with Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who ended on 86 not out.

Sri Lanka had won the first Test for their first victory in the Caribbean.

The win ended West Indies' losing streak of seven consecutive Test series and foiled Sri Lanka's hopes of a first series win in the region.

The teams will now square up for a three-match one-day international series starting on Thursday at Port of Spain.

After the first two days it was pretty even, then we lost four wickets pretty early in the second innings Mahela Jayawardene

Sarwan and Chanderpaul turned the innings around with a display of patient and considered batting after West Indies had looked in trouble at 73 for three.

Sri Lanka had pinned their hopes on a breakthrough with the new ball and that was delivered when Tillakaratne Dilshan took a superb catch to dismiss West Indies' captain Chris Gayle for 10.

Chaminda Vaas then trapped debutant Sewnarine Chattergoon, reducing the hosts to 24-2.

Marlon Samuels and Sarwan added 49 for the third wicket before Vaas struck again, catching Samuels out by a well-disguised slower delivery and Malinda Warnapura took an excellent catch.

However, Sarwan and Chanderpaul batted throughout the afternoon session, taking few chances and running well between the wickets.

Muttiah Muralitharan finally got Sarwan, who was caught at bat-pad by Dilshan at silly point, and the West Indies vice-captain was replaced by Devon Smith with just 23 required to win.

Smith settled any West Indies nerves with two well-timed fours and sealed a win that boosts the hosts ahead of their home series against Australia in May.

Captain of the West Indies Gayle was fined 70% of his match fee for allowing his side bowling their overs too slowly.

The team were six overs short of the required rate and the rest of the team were fined 35% of their fees.

"Neither the captain, coach nor manager was able to persuade me that the shortfall in overs was beyond their control," said match referee Chris Broad.

West Indies centurion Ramnaresh Sarwan:
"I'd been out for 10 months but I've been getting off to good starts in this series and fortunately I was able to go on and get the hundred.

"After we lost Marlon Samuels, I knew I had to form a good partnership with Shivnarine Chanderpaul.

"Shiv was flowing and I didn't have to do all the scoring - he was positive and that paid off for us."

Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene:
"After the first two days it was pretty even. Then we lost four wickets pretty early in the second innings - that was probably where we went wrong.

"Our openers got out early, we lost wickets to a couple of bad shots and we put ourselves under pressure. Then, Thilan (Samaraweera) and Chaminda (Vaas) batted really well and put us in a position where we could win the match.

"But we let ourselves down in that first 10-15 overs - we needed to build a platform for our bowlers, then take four or five wickets early with the new ball - we took three but it wasn't enough, those guys batted really well to take control.

"Credit to West Indies, they played really good cricket for four days and won the Test."