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[caption id="attachment_53013" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Akila Dananjaya took 6 wickets by giving 54 runs against India last night at Pallekele. Image Source: XtraTime[/caption] Internet Desk: Sri Lanka’s mystery spinner Akila Dananjaya expressed his happiness after taking a six-wicket haul against India during the second ODI at Pallekele last night but the Lankan spinner added that he would have been more happier if his team could won the match to level the series 1-1. "We would have been happy had we won the game. I am very sad at the moment. I would have returned a happy man had we won," said Dananjaya after taking 6/54, his maiden five-wicket haul in ODIs, in the second One-dayer against India that Sri Lanka lost by three wickets. The Sri Lankan spinner bagged six wickets by giving just 11 runs in 21 deliveries to break the Indian middle order. He took three wickets in the 18th over of the second innings. "I am an off-spinner. Wicket taking bowls are leg-spin and the googly. I bowl a lot of off spin. Work with Piyal Wijetunga (Sri Lankan spin coach) and if I need to bowl variations, Piyal tells me to do so as well," said Dananjaya. "I realised that the off-spin was not helping much. So I decided to get back to my variations. The target we had to defend wasn't too much either. So we had to take wickets. I bowled a lot of variations and it went really well," he added. Sri Lanka lost the match, thanks to a 100-run partnership for the eighth wicket between former India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Dananjaya was taken off bowling after eight overs and that allowed the Indian pair to settle down. "They were set and I thought better to get back later on if someone breaks the partnership. We wanted to win the game. Once wickets come along we also gained confidence. But Bhuvi and Dhoni were superb. They batted really well against our bowlers. Nothing much of a change on the wicket," he said. Sri Lanka's interim coach Nic Pothas said, "Captain on the field has a gut feeling. How he is going to use his bowlers. Upul (Tharanga) would have kept him back hoping for a wicket. Once we speak to Upul at the end of the day we will get to know better." Dananjaya joined the team just ahead of the second ODI after his wedding. "Wedding was in the afternoon. When I got back to the team hotel it was around 11:30 in the night. I wanted to reach earlier than that but it took a little longer. The wedding was at Moratuwa. Finished around 4pm and we were bit late when we came," he said.