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Although the visitors would ideally like to make a clean sweep of the series, giving an opportunity to the bench players will be their priority in the remaining two matches.
Everything has gone well for Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his men in the series and the team will be keen to keep the winning sequence going for a record ninth consecutive match on Thursday.
The Indian batting has been far superior than the home team and the bowling has also been quite disciplined to bring about the desired results.
Dhoni made it clear after yesterday's match that giving reserve players a chance to prove themselves was more important than retaining the winning squad in pursuit of their record ninth straight ODI win.
"We are not looking at the record. Rather, we will give chance to players who didn't get a chance to play in the series so far," Dhoni said.
"We are 3-0 up and have already won the series. It gives us an opportunity to play those players. For us, this is the priority. The team is not looking at the record but giving chance to those players," he said.
India humiliated Sri Lanka with a 147-run win under floodlights at the R Premadasa stadium yesterday to seal the series.
Sri Lanka, however, have only pride to play for in the remaining matches which are of mere academic interest now. The home side, who are playing non-stop cricket for last five months, will be under pressure to regroup and rediscover their winning form.
Captain Mahela Jayawardene will have to ensure that his team executed the game plan well to win the next two matches and reclaim their confidence ahead of the busy season.
Jayawardene admitted his team was not up to the standard of Dhoni's India and there were some grey areas to be fixed, especially the bowling which was absolutely off the mark on Tuesday.
"There are certain areas we need to tighten up. Against a good opposition like India, certain things were not up to the standard," he said.
"We'll definitely have a chat with the selectors now but we need our best team to win the next two matches, which is very important to get back the confidence. We have a lot of cricket ahead," he said.
The home side's main area of concern would be their bowling after the way Ferveez Maharoof and Dilhara Fernando performed in the third match returning figures of 7-0-68-0 and 8-0-63-1 respectively.
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