Mahendra Dhoni slammed a blistering 183 not out as India scored a superb six-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the third one-day international at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium here on Monday.
The swashbuckling batsman set an Indian record of sixes, registered the highest score by a wicketkeeper in one-dayers and the second-highest by an Indian batsman as his team overhauled Sri Lanka's 298 for four with 23 balls to spare.
Dhoni struck 10 sixes and 16 fours to upstage his counterpart Kumar Sangakkara's career-best 138 not out and helped India to a 3-0 lead in the seven-match series.
The 24-year-old bettered Australian Adam Gilchrist's 172 against Zimbabwe in Hobart in 2002, the previous highest by a gloveman.
Dhoni took four sixes off Upul Chandana and two each off Tillakaratne Dilshan, Chaminda Vaas and Farveez Maharoof to beat the mark of seven sixes by Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly, who did it twice each.
His tally of sixes was just one short of Sri Lankan Sanath Jayasuriya and Pakistan's Shahid Afridi, who jointly hold the world record of 11 sixes in a match.
Dhoni's score was three adrift of Sachin Tendulkar's Indian record of 186 not out set against New Zealand in Hyderabad six years ago and equalled the second-highest score - by Sourav Ganguly.

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Sri Lanka
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K. Sangakkara not out                  138
S. Jayasuriya b Agarkar                 15
M. Atapattu c Dhoni b Yadav             17
M. Jayawardene c Sehwag b Agarkar       71
T. Dilshan lbw b Sehwag                  3
Farveez Maharoof not out                33
Extras: (lb5, nb4, w12)                 21
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Total: (for four wickets)              298
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Fall of wickets: 1-31, 2-77, 3-228, 4-240
Bowling: Pathan 10-0-67-0, Agarkar 10-1-62-2, Yadav 9-0-53-1, Harbhajan 10-0-30-0, Kartik 6-0-42-0, Sehwag 4-0-29-1, Tendulkar 1-0-10-0
Overs: 50

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India
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V. Sehwag lbw b Muralitharan            39
S. Tendulkar c Sangakkara b Vaas         2
M. Dhoni not out                       183
R. Dravid c and b Muralitharan          28
Y. Singh b Dilshan                      18
V. Rao not out                          19
Extras: (b6, lb2, nb5, w1)              14
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Total: (for four wickets)              303
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Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-99, 3-185, 4-250
Bowling: Vaas 6-0-43-1, Fernando 8-0-38-0, Maharoof 7-0-50-0, Muralitharan 10-1-46-2, Chandana 10-0-83-0, Dilshan 5.1-0-35-1.
Overs: 46.1
Super-subs: Upul Chandana (SRI) replaced Thilan Samaraweera; Suresh Raina (IND) replaced Murali Kartik
Result: India win by six wickets to lead seven-match series 3-0
Man of the match: Mahendra Dhoni (IND)
Toss: Sri Lanka
Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZL) and K. Hariharan (IND)
TV umpire: Arani Jayaprakash (IND)
Match referee: Alan Hurst (AUS)
Next match: In Pune on Thursday.