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Dhoni became the first to achieve the feat

Dhoni became the first to achieve the feat

Virat Kohli hit his second century consecutively as India whipped Sri Lanka by six wickets in the fifth one-day universal (ODI) on Sunday to exact a mortifying 5-0 arrangement crush on the ambushed has. 

Kohli crushed nine fours in his unbeaten 110-run thump to enable the guests to accomplish the objective of 239 with 21 balls to save at the R. Premadasa stadium in Colombo.Sri Lanka misused the chance to rescue some pride, collapsing up for a worse than average 238 of every 49.4 overs after paceman Bhuvneshwar Kumar snatched a vocation best 5-42. 

Kumar benefited as much as possible from the conditions, lessening Sri Lanka to 40-2 preceding Lahiru Thirimanne (67) and Angelo Mathews sewed together a 122-run remain for the fourth wicket to enduring the innings. 

The rejection of the two set batsmen set off a fall that saw the hosts lose seven wickets for 53 runs. 

"It is an exceptionally troublesome time for us. We were not up to the standard," said Sri Lankan captain Upul Tharanga. 

"We lost a couple of early wickets. Thirimanne and Mathews had a decent association. At one phase we were taking a gander at 260-270. Sadly we fallen once more. 

"We need to enhance each of the three offices, particularly our batting. We couldn't get those enormous scores in every one of the five amusements. We lost a couple of primary players, yet at the same time as a skipper I feel we didn't play to our standard." 

Mathews gave a simple catch to wicket-manager Mahendra Singh Dhoni off-spinner Kuldeep Yadav (1-40) in the wake of making 55 off 98 conveyances. 

Thirimanne, who hit three fours and a six in his 102-ball thump, was played by Kumar, the man of the match. 

"It's very astonishing to have won the arrangement 5-0. We generally thought the shorter organization will be considerably more difficult," said Kohli. 

"The adolescents and the spunk on the field has worked for us. All round, it's been an entire arrangement for us. We've been playing some great cricket." 

The Indians had an insecure begin however Kohli moored the innings with a 99-run organization with Manish Pandey (36) for the third wicket. 

He likewise put on 109 keeps running with Kedar Jadhav who scored a fine 63 off 73 balls. 

Kohli, 28, looked in glorious shape, hitting Milinda Siriwardana for three fours out of an over to raise his half-century.The right-hander went ahead to finish his 30th ODI century, equalling previous Australian skipper Ricky Ponting's count. 

Just Indian awesome Sachin Tendulkar has scored more hundreds of years in the 50-over diversion with 49 tons. 

Dhoni likewise passed a vocation turning point when he baffled Akila Dananjaya (four) off the rocking the bowling alley of leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal, his 100th in ODIs. 

Dhoni turned into the first to accomplish the accomplishment, outperforming previous Sri Lankan wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara who had 99 stumpings amazingly. 

The arrangement win came after India cleared the former three Test elastic 3-0, topping their mastery of the home side which has been assailed by damage and determination troubles. 


This was India's second 5-0 whitewash in an ODI arrangement abroad, with Kohli's men having blanked Zimbabwe in 2013.