Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul hit brilliant centuries as Indiaproduced a dominating all-round performance to beat Sri Lanka by seven wicketsat Headingley in Leeds on Saturday. By the virtue of the victory, India go topof the World Cup 2019 points table and will maintain their position providedAustralia lose to South Africa in the day's later game. Rohit Sharma (103) andKL Rahul (111) dominated the chase from the outset of the match, forging a189-runs stand, the highest by any team in World Cup 2019. The duo helped Indiacruise in the 265-run chase after India's new ball bowler Jasprit Bumrahstarred with the ball registering figures of 3/37.Sharma reached his milestonewith a boundary off Kasun Rajitha to pass the mark set by Sri Lanka's KumarSangakkara, who scored four hundreds at the 2015 tournament.He reached hiscentury off 92 balls with 14 fours and two sixes but was dismissed shortlyafterwards, caught by Angelo Mathews off the bowling of Rajitha.

Sharma, known as the "hitman", now leads the tournament'srun-scoring charts with 647 runs in eight matches after hitting his thirdsuccessive century.He is only the fourth batsman after Sachin Tendulkar,Matthew Hayden and Shakib Al Hasan to score more than 600 runs at a singleWorld Cup.Skipper Virat Kohli remained unbeaten on 34 and Hardik Pandya hit thewinning runs to give India a chance of finishing above group leaders Australia,playing South Africa in the later match at Old Trafford.Rahul registered hisfirst century of the tournament but was caught behind shortly before the end ofthe game off veteran paceman Lasith Malinga -- playing his final World Cupmatch -- after hitting 11 fours and one six in his 118-ball knock.Earlier,Mathews hit his third one-day international century and put on 124 runs for thefifth wicket with Lahiru Thirimanne (53) to give Sri Lanka a respectable totalafter they were reeling at 55-4.Jasprit Bumrah returned impressive figures of3-37 in his 10 overs as India, who had already qualified for the semi-finals,restricted Sri Lanka with some quality bowling.

The 1996 champions finished their World Cup campaign withthree wins, four defeats and two games ending in no result.