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An injury and a suspension mean Sri Lanka are depleted going into the third ODI. Will India clinch the series or will the hosts, under new captain Kapugedera, manage to pull one back?

The two batsmen have been brought in for the remainder of the ODI series after Danushka Gunathilaka was ruled out due to a shoulder injury and Upul Tharanga was suspended for two matches

Akila Dananjaya, who took 6 for 54, realised early on that the offbreak wouldn't be helpful against India in Pallekele and switched to bowling legbreaks and googlies instead

Bhuvneshwar Kumar revealed that he was especially mindful of Dananjaya's incoming delivery and walked in with a plan to counter it, after hauling India to an improbable win in the second ODI

Bhuvneshwar Kumar and MS Dhoni added an unbroken 100, an Indian record for the eighth wicket, to turn the tables on Sri Lanka and lead India to a three-wicket win

The interim coach was earlier critical of fickle selections following the nine-wicket loss in Dambulla, but has now struck an optimistic note about the team's prospects

India would not have expected their successes to come quite as easily as they have so far on this tour. There's little to suggest the trend will be bucked in Pallekele

The fan demonstration - shouting slogans and hooting - delayed the Sri Lankan team's departure by close to half an hour after their drubbing in the opening ODI

The interim coach has also expressed his annoyance at outsiders meddling in team matters

After India's spinners dismissed the hosts for 216, Shikhar Dhawan smashed an unbeaten 132 of 90 balls to finish the chase in 28.5 overs

Virat Kohli has said India will not be afraid of taking risks and experimenting with players in different roles in order to discover the best combination ahead of the 2019 World Cup

India have runs, wickets, form and confidence on their side. Sri Lanka have the distant memory of that Oval victory and familiarity with conditions on theirs

India's ODI opener reflects on a decade in international cricket and how he spent the days sitting out of the Test series against Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's squad for the five-match series against India also includes Malinda Pushpakumara and Vishwa Fernando, who are yet to make their ODI debuts

This Indian team has rid itself of a culture in which newcomers were judged, according to Virat Kohli

Not once could Sri Lanka push a Test match to the fifth day and the new captain Dinesh Chandimal felt quite badly about that

The chairman of selectors admitted MS Dhoni was not an automatic selection anymore, and made it clear that the next few months will see a lot of rotation in the ODI squad

R Ashwin and Mohammed Shami finished with combined second-innings figures of 43.3-12-100-7 as India completed a 3-0 whitewash with an innings win in Pallekele

After scoring his first Test hundred - also his first official one - the India allrounder was so intoxicated that he just started blurting things out

Yuvraj Singh and wicketkeepers Dinesh Karthik and Rishabh Pant have been omitted from India's squad for the limited-overs leg of the Sri Lanka tour