kolkata the last time india played a oneday international at the eden gardens kuldeep yadav had picked up a hattrick against australia in 2017 on thursday he made the playing xi only after yuzvendra chahal had to sit out with a sore right shoulder but the chinaman bowler is used to be in and out of the team and like always grabbed the opportunity with both hands claiming three for 51 in his 10 overs to help india bowl out sri lanka for a belowpar 215 runs in 394 overs in the second odiindia made heavy weather before winning by four wickets with 40 balls left ending with 219 for six in 432 overs to seal the threematch series taking an unassailable 20 lead the hosts made a fluent start with both skipper rohit sharma and shubman gill smashing boundaries but lanka hit back picking up both the openers in consecutive overs and then lahiru kumara who replaced dilshan madushanka got one to cut back sharply to clean bowl virat kohli who was beaten both by movement and paceindia were in a spot of bother after being reduced to 86 for four losing shreyas iyer in the 15th over but kl rahul and hardik pandya took it upon themselves to steady the ship without going for any heroics they kept going with singles and twos mostly but with no big scoreboard pressure the asking rate always remained within control as the duo stitched a 75run fifthwicket stand off 119 balls rahul reestablished his credentials by staying unbeaten on 64 off 103 balls india still needed 55 runs off 95 balls when pandya 36 53b departed but the wicketkeeperbatter soaked in the pressure and stayed till the end after axar patel played a runaball innings of 21 to take the side homeearlier kuldeep got able support from another leftarm spinner axar who not only kept it tight claiming one for 16 but also took three welljudged catches at backward pointthe lankan batters failed to flourish on a good batting track after skipper dasun shanaka won the toss and opted to bat they lost avishka fernando early when the opener insideedged a mohammed siraj delivery that came in sharply but with no more seam movement on offer nuwanidu fernando coming place of injured pathum nissanka and kusal mendis steadied the innings finding the occasional boundaries toobut the introduction of spin in the 17th over changed the whole complexion of the match kuldeep broke the 73run secondwicket stand by having mendis trapped in front when the wicketkeeperbatter missed a straight one dhananjaya de silva departed for a firstball duck getting bowled off his pad in the next over when axar came into the attackhowever it was the quick dismissals of nuwanidu fernando younger brother of former lankan international vishwa and skipper shanuka that tilted the balance in indias favour nuwanidu who got his maiden fifty in his debut odi match off 62 balls departed in a rather unfortunate manner pushing one towards midwicket