Opener Shikhar Dhawan's blazing century and a decisive spell by their wrist spinners powered India to a series-clinching eight-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the third one-day international on Sunday.

Chasing 216 for victory, India rode on a 135-run partnership between Dhawan (100 not out) and Shreyas Iyer (65) to romp home in 32.1 overs in Visakhapatnam.

Dhawan completed his 12th ODI hundred in 85 balls, his knock laced with 13 fours and two sixes, before taking India to their eighth consecutive ODI series victory since June 2016.

But it was Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal who set up the comprehensive victory after taking three wickets each to help restrict the visitors to 215 all out in 44.5 overs.

The hosts lost skipper Rohit Sharma early after he was bowled by off-spinner Akila Dananjaya for seven but it was only a minor blemish in an otherwise comfortable chase.

Iyer, who registered his second successive half-century in just his third ODI, combined with Dhawan to take the attack to the opposition bowlers.

Earlier Sri Lanka had got off to a strong start with opener Upul Tharanga making a 82-ball 95 after the visitors were invited to bat first.

SCORES IN BRIEF

SRI LANKA: 215 all out in 44.5 overs (Tharanga 95, Samrawickrama 42, Mathews 17, Gunaratne 17; Pandya 2-49, Yadav 3-42, Chahal 3-46)

INDIA: 219 for 2 in 32.1 overs (Dhawan 100 not out, Iyer 65, Karthik 26 not out; Dananjaya 1-53, Perera 1-25)

Result: India won by 8 wickets and clinched the three-match series 2-1.

Player-of-the-match: Kuldeep Yadav.

Player-of-the-series: Shikhar Dhawan.