DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Thilan Samaraweera’s sparkling  century and Chanaka Welegedara’s incisive bowling led Sri Lanka  to a five-wicket win over India in the second match of the  Tri-Series yesterday.

After restricting India to 279 for nine, Sri Lanka raced to  283 for five in 48 overs with Samaraweera cracking a career-best  unbeaten 105 including 11 fours.

Samaraweera shared a second-wicket partnership of 122 with  his captain Kumar Sangakkara who scored 60 off 80 balls, his  53rd one-day half-century and second in two days.

India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh took three wickets but he  could not restrict the Sri Lankans who beat hosts Bangladesh in  the opening match of the tournament by seven wickets.

Sri Lanka bowled well at the death to keep their target down  after Yuvraj Singh had set the platform for India with an  aggressive 74 including six fours and two sixes.

Sri Lanka conceded only 20 runs in the last five overs and  took four wickets as Welegedara completed his maiden five-wicket  haul.

Welegedara, playing only his sixth one-dayer, ripped through  India’s top-order with three wickets, bowling a superb yorker to  uproot the leg stump of in-form Gautam Gambhir for eight and  finishing with figures of five for 66.

Yuvraj, who reached his fifty with successive sixes off  Thilan Kandamby, shared a 99-run fourth-wicket partnership with  skipper MS Dhoni.