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Live Reporting

by Matthew Henry & Mike Peter

  1. Lunch - Eng 35-2

    And wicket means it is lunch. England's lead is 97 and this game is by no means done.

  2. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Former England batter on BBC Sounds

    Ollie Pope is furious with himself but that is a brilliant delivery.

    Pope didn't have an angle to work with, smart bowling from Kumara going wide of the crease.

  3. wicket

    WICKET

    Pope b Kumara 7 (Eng 35-2)

    Ollie Pope is furious with himself. England's first-innings certurion neither whacks it nor defends and inside edges the ball back into his stumps.

    Sri Lanka are pumped!

  4. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Former England batter on BBC Sounds

    It feels like this generation are not fussed about stats.

  5. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    Statistician on Test Match Special

    Ben Duckett has averaged 64.4 runs this summer and he hasn't batted one 100-ball innings.

  6. Eng 35-1

    Lead by 97

    Well if Dan Lawrence is going to follow his former Essex team-mate in doing that same he's certain going to do it differently. I never saw Cook play any of these shots Lawrence is attempting.

  7. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport chief cricket writer at The Oval

    Alastair CookGetty Images

    This is the ground where former Essex man Sir Alastair Cook got his career-saving ton. A sports psychologist asked him if he wanted help. "Not unless you're going to bat for me".

  8. Eng 29-1

    Dan Lawrence swings extravagantly again but fails to connect. He's middled one of these wild shots.

  9. One to mark down as 'could do better' and that's being generous...

  10. Eng 28-1

    Lawrence 18, Pope 2

    Four more to Dan Lawrence.

    This one was there to hit so there can be no grumbles.

    There are 15 minutes to go until lunch.

  11. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Former England batter on BBC Sounds

    This game could go so many different directions.

    In one way England should have had a bigger lead and the other side is that Sri Lanka have done well to get back in it.

  12. Eng 22-1

    We'll have the clip for you shortly. Ben Duckett was trying hit the ball somewhere north of the river.

  13. This was some way to score your first run...

  14. Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    That's a shocking shot, really poor.

    They've just got to be careful England, the manner and way they played was with a little lack of respect for the opposition.

  15. wicket

    WICKET

    Duckett c Vishwa b Asitha 7 (Eng 20-1)

    Ben Duckett has attacked a length ball and spooned it straight to mid-on. Not pretty.

  16. Ben Jones
    CricViz analyst

    A riff on a classic stat: Ben Duckett has scored 163 runs against Sri Lanka's seamers this series, and he's left just 0.5% of the balls bowled to him. No player since 2006 - when data was first collected - has scored as many runs in a series with a lower leave percentage.

  17. Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    That's a brilliant shot, you can see the opportunity and he just took it.

  18. Eng 15-0

    Duckett 7, Lawrence 7

    Dan Lawrence's response to his personal need for runs is to charge Milan Rathnayake and swish him over cover for four like prime Jason Roy. He is, as you might expect, going to take the aggressive approach rather than trying to grind it out.

    Ben Duckett slams a boundary later in the over too. It's another fast start from England.

  19. Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Sri Lanka probably need three wickets by lunchtime to give themselves that boost.

  20. Eng 4-0

    Lead by 66

    The trumpeter has just finished a rendition of Rocketman - the tune for Ben Duckett's song. You can probably work out the words.