Kohli poses with the winner's trophy yesterday. Pic/Getty Images

When R Ashwin flicked a carrom ball through the gate to dismiss Sri Lanka's last batsman, the hosts were still 71 runs away from making India bat a second time and the third Test had ended with comfortably more than two days to spare. History, as Virat Kohli reminded his boys, had been made, with India completing their first overseas 3-0 sweep.