Indian spinners strangulated the Sri Lankan batting before Shikhar Dhawan and Shreyas Iyer starred with the bat as India sealed a convincing 8 wicket win over Sri Lanka and sealed the series 2-1 in Vishakapatnam on Sunday. Set a modest 216 to win, India lost captain and double centurion in the last match Rohit Sharma early for 7. Young batsmen Iyer outpaced opening batsmen Shikhar Dhawan and scored a fine 65, though he would be disappointed as he had a great chance to remain unbeaten or even score a maiden ton. Perera accounted for him as he mishit one straight to Lakmal at mid on. However, the experienced Shikhar Dhawan made the most of the opportunity and completed his 12th ODI ton in dominating style.

He smashed 5 consecutive boundaries of Hardik Pandya's over as Sri Lanka looked set for a big total. Sadeera Samarawickrama provided the supporting role and it seemed that the Islanders might well post a score above 300 runs which was required on the pitch. India decided to bring in Kuldeep Yadav in place of ill Washington Sundar and Rohit decided to introduce the wrist spinner in the 11th over.

After that, the Indian spinners completely dominated as Sri Lanka collapsed from 160/2 to 215 all-out. Some ordinary shots along with some fine bowling led to Sri Lanka's downfall. The spinners shared six wickets between them as Kuldeep ended with figures of 3/42 and Chahal with 3/46. Dickwella ended up giving catching practice to Shreyas Iyer at first slip. Now, the action moves to Cuttack, where India will play the first T20I against Sri Lanka on Wednesday.