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India Vs Sri Lanka, 5th ODI Highlights: Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni create history

Here are the key highlights from the fifth and final ODI between India and Sri Lanka. Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni create records.

India Vs Sri Lanka, 5th ODI Highlights: Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni create history

Colombo, Sep 3: Riding over yet another sensational one-day century from skipper Virat Kohli, India became the first visiting country to inflict a 5-0 'Whitewash' on Sri Lanka with a thumping six-wicket victory in the final ODI of the series, here on Sunday (September 3).

Match scorecard

Virat Record: 30 ODI Century

Kohli displayed utmost ruthlessness in both captaincy and batsmanship as Men in Blue completed their domination over hosts in the series that was battle of unequals from the very beginning.

India have now completed a back-to-back clean sweep of the hosts after humiliating them in the three-Test series, which was also a complete rout.

Kohli hit his 30th ODI ton in his only 194th game and is now jointly second highest in list of century makers alongside Ricky Ponting with only Sachin Tendulkar (49 hundreds) ahead of him.

The skipper got ample support from Kedar Jadhav (63) and Manish Pandey (36) from the other end as the tourists cruised to another comfortable win. No Sri Lankan bowler could manage to challenge the Indian batsmen as they kept scoring runs at ease.

Jadhav added 109 runs with his skipper for the fourth wicket stand after Pandey departed post a 99-run stand for the third wicket.

Meanwhile, Bhuvneshwar Kumar returned with his match-winning career best figures of 5/42 to ensure Sri Lanka were once again restricted to a below-par total.

Here are few highlights from the 5th ODI:

30th ODI hundred for Virat Kohli in his only 194th game and is now jointly second highest in list of century makers alongside Ricky Ponting with only Sachin Tendulkar (49 hundreds) ahead of him.

Second consecutive century for Virat Kohli in this series, he has now slammed 19 ODI tons batting second, which is also a record.

Most ODI runs in 2017: Virat Kohli has scored 1,017 in this year from 18 games. He has slammed 4 tons this year.

Five 1000+ scores in a calendar year: Kohli now has scored 1000-plus runs five times in the last 7 years. He missed out in 2015 & 2016.

He can equal another record next year: Kohli now needs to score another 1000 runs, in a calendar year, to equal Sourav Ganguly, Ricky Ponting and Kumar Sangakkara's six 1000-plus totals in a year. If he does it twice more, he will go onto equal Tendulkar's record.

Kohli matches Ganguly record: The Delhi-lad has now scored 19 ODI centuries away from home in ODI and equalled the record of former India skipper Sourav Ganguly. Sachin Tendulkar leads the tally for with 29 tons outside India.

300th Stumping for MS Dhoni: Dhoni became the first wicketkeeper in world cricket to effect 100 stumpings in One Day Internationals. He has surpassed Kumar Sangakkara's 99 ODI dismissals via stumping to name another record.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar grabbed a career-best 5/42 and effected yet another batting collapse of the Sri Lankan batsmen. He was awarded the Man of the Match.

Jasprit Bumrah named Man of the Series for claiming 15 wickets in 5 matches.

The 122-run partnership for the fourth wicket between Lahiru Thirimanne (67) and Angelo Mathews (55) is their best stand in the series.

India have won 16 of their last 19 ODIs versus Sri Lanka (L3); including nine victories in their last 10 against them (L1).

Sri Lanka are without a victory in their last 10 attempts at home to India in all formats; they have lost their last eight on home soil to them in ODI cricket.

India secured back-to-back bilateral ODI series whitewashes against Sri Lanka, they achieved a 5-0 victory back in November 2014.

2nd ODI whitewash overseas: This is Team India's second clean sweep outside India and both came under Kohli's captaincy.

Story first published: Monday, September 4, 2017, 18:02 [IST]
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