Joe Root and Jos Buttler laid the platform for England's dominant 122-run win over Sri Lanka in the fifth and final one-day international in Cardiff on Saturday.
Root top-scored with 93 as England made 324 for seven.
Together with man-of-the-match Buttler, who made a typically rapid 70, he put on 109 for the fifth wicket.
Sri Lanka's chase never got going and they were bowled out for 202 with more than seven overs to spare.
That gave England a convincing 3-0 series win, with one tie and one no result.
It was further proof of the progress England had made in ODI cricket since their humiliating first-round exit from last year's World Cup, which included a nine-wicket thrashing by Sri Lanka in Wellington.
"The belief in the changing room has been outstanding," said England captain Eoin Morgan.
For Sri Lanka this latest series loss came after a 2-0 reverse in a three-Test campaign against England.
It emphasised the worth of England's battling tie in the ODI series opener at Trent Bridge.
"Either batting, bowling or fielding has let us down," said Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews.
Man-of-the-series Jason Roy, who scored a superb 162 on his Surrey home ground during England's six-wicket win at The Oval on Wednesday, again looked in good touch with a run-a-ball 34.
But there was to be no third hundred this series after his 112 not out at Edgbaston, with Roy hoisting paceman Suranga Lakmal to deep square leg.
James Vince, opening in place of the injured Alex Hales, marked his maiden ODI innings with a stylish fifty before getting himself stumped off spinner Danushka Gunathilaka.
Morgan made 20 that included a soaring six over long-on off leg-spinner Seekkugge Prasanna.
However, the left-hander also fell to Gunathilaka when he sliced him to cover.
It was the 21st successive innings in all international cricket where the Irishman had failed to make a fifty.
Gunathilaka took an ODI best three for 48.
Willey ended the match with three wickets in seven balls, including Dinesh Chandimal, who top-scored for Sri Lanka with 53. Nine wickets were shared by Yorkshire bowlers with the other Sri Lanka dismissal seeing their county colleague Jonny Bairstow run out Kusal Mendis in conjunction with Lancashire wicket-keeper Buttler. Sri Lanka will have one last chance for a win on either English or Welsh soil this tour when they face England in a lone Twenty20 international at Southampton on Tuesday.
Scoreboard
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England
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J. Roy c Perera b Lakmal 34
J. Vince st Chandimal b Gunathilaka 51
J. Root b Pradeep 93
E. Morgan c Mendis b Gunathilaka 20
J. Bairstow c Shanaka b Gunathilaka 22
J. Buttler b Bandara 70
C. Woakes not out 17
L. Plunkett run out (Pradeep) 9
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Extras: (lb4, w4) 8
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Total: (7 wkts, 50 overs) 324
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Did not bat: C Jordan, D Willey, A Rashid
Fall of wickets: 1-67 (Roy), 2-108 (Vince), 3-137 (Morgan), 4-182 (Bairstow), 5-291 (Buttler), 6-314 (Root), 7-324 (Plunkett)
Bowling: Lakmal 10-0-65-1 (1w); Bandara 10-0-83-1 (1w); Pradeep 8-0-59-1; Gunathilaka 10-0-48-3 (1w); Prasanna 10-0-52-0 (1w); Mendis 2-0-13-0
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Sri Lanka
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K. Perera lbw b Willey 6
D. Gunathilaka lbw b Plunkett 48
K. Mendis run out (Bairstow/Buttler) 22
D. Chandimal b Willey 53
A. Mathews b Plunkett 13
U. Tharanga b Rashid 0
D. Shanaka st Buttler b Rashid 22
S. Prasanna c Willey b Plunkett 5
S. Lakmal c Morgan b Willey 10
N. Pradeep c Woakes b Willey 7
C. Bandara not out 1
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Extras: (lb7, w8) 15
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Total: (all out, 42.4 overs) 202
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Fall of wickets: 1-9 (Perera), 2-66 (Mendis), 3-83 (Gunathilaka), 4-105 (Mathews), 5-105 (Tharanga), 6-141 (Shanaka), 7-170 (Prasanna), 8-194 (Lakmal), 9-195 (Chandimal), 10-202 (Pradeep)
Bowling: Woakes 9-0-36-0 (2w); Willey 8.4-0-34-4; Jordan 7-0-40-0 (5w); Plunkett 8-0-44-3; Rashid 10-0-41-2 (1w);
Result: England won by 122 runs
Man-of-the-match: Jos Buttler (ENG)
Series: England win five-match series 3-0
Man-of-the-series: Jason Roy (ENG)
Toss: Sri Lanka
Umpires: Paul Reiffel (AUS), Michael Gough (ENG)
TV umpire: Bruce Oxenford (AUS)
Match referee: David Boon (AUS)
Previous Results
Jun 21: 1st ODI, Trent Bridge: Tied (d/n)
Jun 24: 2nd ODI, Edgbaston: England won by 10 wickets (d/n)
Jun 26: 3rd ODI, Bristol: No Result (rain).
Jun 29: 4th ODI, The Oval: England won by 6 wickets (D/L method) (d/n) d/n= day/night.
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