The Virat Kohli leads the Indian team to a series whitewash over neighbors Sri Lanka, Ravinchandran Ashwin and Mohammed Shami helped India to steal the victory by an innings over Sri Lanka in the third Test at Pallekele to complete a series whitewash over their neighbors on Day Three of the third and final Test on Monday This series win created a historic for India as it was their 3 match test series win to sweep outside of the country.
The Ashwin ended with figures of 4/68 while Shami finished with 3/32 in the second innings, India had already confirmed the series in Colombo when they had taken a 2-0 lead after winning the first Test at Galle, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 181 in their second innings after managing only a worthless 135 in their first to hand India an innings and 171-run win, Centuries from Shikhar Dhawan and Hardik pandya had helped India post 487 in the first innings.