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India thrash Sri Lanka to record 400th ODI win

July 31, 2012 22:26 IST
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India [ Images ] on Tuesday notched up their 400th one-day international victory when they thrashed Sri Lanka [ Images ] by six wickets in the fourth ODI of the five-match series at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.

Riding on a fluent century by Virat Kohli [ Images ] 128 -- his 13th hundred in 89 ODIs -- and a career-best bowling figures of four for 61 by Manoj Tiwary, India beat Sri Lanka with 46 balls to spare and took an unassailable 3-1 lead.

India played their first One-day International at Leeds against England [ Images ] on July 13, 1974 under the captaincy of Ajit Wadekar but they tasted their first success in the limited overs cricket only on June 11, 1975 in a World Cup game against East Africa 

India beat East Africa by 10 wickets in that match at Leeds under the captaincy of S Venkataraghavan. 

The current Indian team is led by skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni [ Images ].

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