Second Test, Kanpur, day four:
India 642 beat Sri Lanka 229 & 269 by an innings and 144 runs
Match scorecard
India earned their 100th Test victory by comprehensively beating Sri Lanka by an innings and 144 runs in Kanpur.
The margin was India's biggest over Sri Lanka, surpassing the previous best of an innings and 119 runs in 1994.
Resuming on 57-4, Sri Lanka were dismissed for 269 before tea with only Thilan Samaraweera offering any resistance, finishing unbeaten on 78.
The crushing win puts India 1-0 ahead in the series, with the third and final Test taking place in Mumbai next week.
Paceman Zaheer Khan got the hosts off to the perfect start on the fourth day, taking the wicket of all-rounder Angelo Mathews for 15 in the second over.
Prasanna Jayawardene added 61 runs for the sixth wicket with Samaraweera before off-spinner Harbhajan Singh bowled him for 29.
Harbhajan also trapped Rangana Herath leg before wicket for 13 while Muttiah Muralitharan, who scored 29 off 11 deliveries, fell to spinner Pragyan Ojha.
Samaraweera, the only Sri Lankan batsman to score a half century in the match, then forged another partnership with Ajantha Mendis - the eighth wicket duo putting on 73 - before Yuvraj Singh bowled Mendis for 27.
Ojha then caught and bowled last man Chanaka Welegedara, the wicket sparking wild celebrations.
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