"We just finished an absorbing test series. We shall all miss the great Kumar Sangakkara on the cricket field," Modi said during a joint press briefing with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Sangakkara, who bade adieu to the game after the second Test against India last month, was one of the leading players in world cricket for the last 15 years during which he played 134 Tests scoring 12,400 runs. He had also represented the island nation in 404 ODIs and scored 14,234 runs.
Earlier Modi held extensive talks with Wickremesinghe to take the bilateral relationship to the next level.