Rahul Dravid's first assignment as Team India head coach has been successful. Shikhar Dhawan's men clinched the three-match ODI series in Colombo with a game to spare on Tuesday. In what was an edge-of-the-seat encounter with Sri Lanka, Deepak Chahar and Suryakumar Yadav steered India to victory, chasing a 276-run target, with three wickets to spare.

Soon after the match, Dravid assembled his team in the dressing room to give a speech that served as a shot in the arm for the young guns. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) posted a video on their Twitter handle, which has garnered around 16K likes. "We said they were going to respond, we knew we had to respect the opposition. The opposition was going to respond, they're also an international team. They responded, and we responded back like a champion team. With our back to the wall, we found a way to break them. So really well done to all of you. Fantastic job," Dravid said.

How the match panned out

Chasing 276 for victory, India were reduced to 193 for seven in 36th over but Deepak Chahar (69) and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (19) shared an unbroken 84-run stand to take the visitors home with three wickets in hand and five balls to spare. In the Sri Lanka innings, Bhuvneshwar (3/54) and Yuzvendra Chahal (3/50) grabbed three wickets each, while Chahar claimed two to restrict Sri Lanka to 275 for nine, built mainly around half-centuries from opener Avishka Fernando (50) and Charith Asalanka (65).

India found the going tough with Suryakumar Yadav anchoring the chase with a 44-ball 53 but once he was gone, the visitors slipped to 193 for seven. However, Chahar smashed his maiden ODI fifty and in the company of Bhuvneshwar took the team home. "It is not the right time to talk about individuals at this point, obviously there were some fantastic individual performances, especially towards the end," said Dravid, who was named India head coach for the limited-overs tour of Sri Lanka.