Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara had threatened to upstage the home side again by smashing a belligerent 59 off just 31 deliveries as Sri Lanka piled up a massive 206 for seven.
Sehwag (64 off 36 deliveries) then got the chase off to a solid start and Mahendra Singh Dhoni contributed 46, but Yuvraj, who also claimed three for 23, overshadowed those performances with an undefeated 60 (25 deliveries)
Sangakkara won the toss but Ishant Sharma, who shared the new ball with Ashish Nehra, struck in his first over to remove Tillakaratne Dilshan, knocking out leg stump with a delivery that moved off the seam.
Sangakkara, who replaced Dilshan, was off the mark with a boundary and thereafter took the game away from India with some ferocious hitting. He dominated an 81-run stand for the second wicket with Sanath Jayasuriya (31), a partnership which helped the visitors recover nicely from the blow of Dilshan's dismissal.
Sangakkara, dropped on 28 by Ravindra Jadeja on the ropes, raised his half-century off 29 deliveries with a six off Yuvraj.
Yuvraj, who turned 28 today, was dropped on 40 in a Nuwan Kulasekara over from which he hit 23 and reached 50 off just 20 deliveries. India, well in control by then, suffered a minor blip as Dhoni and Suresh Raina were dismissed in quick succession, but Yuvraj finished off the game with a six.
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