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Dhawan, Umesh Yadav take India to series win

Shikhar Dhawan had his reputation to salvage after a poor tour of England. And just like he established himself in India's top order in the series against Australia last year, Dhawan continued his assured revival with 91 (79b, 8x4, 1x6) as India emerged six-wicket victors in the third match at Hyderabad, thereby taking an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series. (PTI)

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Dhawan's innings trumped Mahela Jayawardene's effort earlier in the day, whose 124-ball 118 had rescued Sri Lanka to put up 242 after electing to bat, but an asking rate of under five runs an over was not going to trouble the Indian batsmen on a placid Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium wicket. (PTI)

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Victory, however, was set up by India's pace-spin duo of Umesh Yadav and Akshar Patel, who shared seven wickets between them to extinguish any chances of Sri Lanka putting up a competitive score. (PTI)

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And despite the return of Nuwan Kulasekara, Sri Lanka's bowlers couldn't produce enough wicket-taking deliveries to trouble the Indian batsmen, with one of the fourwickets to fall (Ambati Rayudu) resulting from a terrible mix-up. (PTI)

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After Ajinkya Rahane (31, 47b, 5x4) and Dhawan put on a 62-run opening stand, last-match centurion Rayudu (35, 46b, 3x4) added another 59 with the left-hander, before stand-in captain Virat Kohli (53, 61b, 4x4, 1x6) and Suresh Raina (18*, 23b, 1x6) hastened India's march to their sixth consecutive win in 50-over contests. (PTI)

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06 / 10

Dhawan had made the most of a decision that went for him in the previous game at Ahmedabad - where he was on 10 when the umpire denied Lahiru Gamage a caught-behind appeal - but was done in by one that went against him nine runs short of a seventh ODI hundred. (BCCL)

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Attempting a hook off Kulasekara, the ball brushed his helmet on the way to Kumar Sangakkara but was given out. With 283 runs from three games, Dhawan has led India's batting effort in the series, but his return to form is a positive sign ahead of a gruelling tour of Australia and the World Cup. (BCCL)

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While India's experiments with their team combination continued to fetch them success ahead of the all-important World Cup next year, Sri Lanka's efforts to strengthen their line-up in a bid to stay alive in the series wasn't as successful with the visitors being bowled out for 242. (PTI)

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Mahela Jayawardene's 17th ODI century somewhat hid Sri Lanka's frailties in the match and held the innings together, and the resulting 77-run eighth wicket stand with Seekkuge Prasanna (29, 32b, 2x4, 1x6) rescued them from a precarious 144/7 to a respectable total. (BCCL)

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As well as the Indian bowlers began - led by Umesh Yadav's 4/53 - they were guilty of spraying the ball on either side of the wicket in the later stages of the innings, explained by the expensive figures of both Yadav and Dhawal Kulkarni (9.2-0-58-1), who together sent down eight wides and two no-balls. (PTI)

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