Summary

  • Day four, second Test, Lord's

  • England dismiss Sri Lanka for 292 to win by 190 runs and take unassailable 2-0 series lead

  • Karunaratne, Chandimal and Dhananjaya show resistance with fifties

  • Atkinson claims five-wicket haul to go with first-innings century

  • Watch highlights on Today at the Test from 19:00 BST on BBC Two and iPlayer

  • Third and final Test at The Oval starts on Friday, 6 September

Live Reporting

by Tom Mallows & Ffion Wynne

  1. Alison Mitchell
    Commentator on BBC Test Match Special

    Gus Atkinson has his sights on the Lord's honours board again in the same Test match! It really has been an exceptional start to his Test career.

  2. Lahiru Kumara is the new batter.

    Gus Atkinson one wicket away from a third five-fer at Lord's in two Test matches.

  3. Russel Arnold
    Ex-Sri Lanka all-rounder on BBC Test Match Special

    A very soft dismissal. It's so frustrating.

  4. wicket

    WICKET

    De Silva b Atkinson 50 (SL 273-8)

    Chopped on!

    It is a back-of-a-length delivery from Gus Atkinson, Dhananjaya de Silva rocks onto his back foot but can only jam the ball down into the ground off the bottom edge and onto the stumps.

  5. SL 273-7

    After the drama of the previous over, Chris Woakes sends down a maiden next up.

  6. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport chief cricket writer at Lord's

    I might be getting a fifth curry at this rate.

  7. dropped catch

    De Silva dropped on 50

    Two drops in two balls!

    This is a lot, lot tougher though. It is Dan Lawrence at short leg, who cannot get his hands down in time and the ball cannons off his leg and away to safety.

  8. dropped catch

    Rathnayake dropped on 33

    Oh, Joe.

    A loose drive from Milan Rathnayake catches the edge and flies through to Joe Root at first slip, but he spills what should have been a routine catch.

  9. 50 runs

    50 for Dhananjaya de Silva

    Dhananjaya de Silva plays a straight drive that is reeled in before the rope, but the three runs are enough for the Sri Lanka to reach his half-century.

    A fine effort from De Silva in a difficult match situation.

  10. SL 264-7

    Sri Lanka continue to show positive intent as Milan Rathnayake leans into a cover drive that brings two.

    No real scares for the tourists from that first over after tea by Chris Woakes.

  11. Thanks, Ffion.

    I didn't think I would be here for this evening stint at the start of play, but credit to Sri Lanka for showing some battling spirit.

    England have taken the new ball though so they will look to polish this match off pretty quickly in the glorious Lord's sunshine.

  12. Phew, that was a long session! A reminder that today's sessions are extended because of the time lost to bad light yesterday evening.

    The players are back out after tea with England hunting these final three wickets.

    Here's Tom Mallows to take you through it.

  13. Ollie Pope has rotated his quick bowlers efficiently, though generally sticking to the short ball plan for this most recent partnership hasn't really worked.

    With the new ball due when they come back out, we'll likely see Chris Woakes and co. pitching the ball up once again.

    Pope also hasn't had much luck with his reviewing. So far in his short captaincy career, he's reviewed eight decisions and all of them unsuccessful. This lbw on Milan Rathnayake was the most recent of those.

  14. During the lunch break, Jonathan Agnew hosted a journalist panel discussing a variety of subjects including the poor crowd that is at Lord's today.

    With expensive tickets, uncompetitive Test matches and the tendency for them to be done inside three or four days now, there was plenty to be considered.

    You can now listen back to the thoughts of Ali Martin (The Guardian), Stephan Shemilt (BBC Sport), Lawrence Booth (Daily Mail and Wisden) and Rex Clementine (The Island newspaper) on the Test Match Special podcast.

    Click here to listen on BBC Sounds.

  15. Yep, it's been good to see some fight but it's definitely another Test of "what ifs" from Sri Lanka.

    The call at the toss, the first innings collapse, only picking three seamers.

    They've had opportunities, played brilliantly in parts, but have been let down by inconsistency.

    They're still 223 runs behind so a successful chase seems very unlikely, but there have been entertaining partnerships including the ongoing one between Dhananjaya de Silva and Milan Rathnayake.

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    I can’t be the only one thinking - where was this fight in the first innings?

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  17. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    At one stage I didn't think Sri Lanka would reach tea.

    But the break has come at a good time for England. They can go away and regroup.

  18. Tea - SL 260-7

    Target 483

    Ollie Pope packs the fielders around the bat for the final over before tea, but there's no way past Milan Rathnayake's defence yet.

    Sri Lanka are showing plenty of fight and character on day four but as predicted, England are still heavy favourites for a day four victory.

  19. SL 258-7

    Target 483

    The sparse crowd at Lord's bursts into life at the sight of Dan Lawrence's utterly bizarre bowling.

    Dhananjaya de Silva seems bewildered, too, missing his first two balls and almost playing on to his stumps before Lawrence sends one down the leg side that beats everything and races away for four byes.

    We'll squeeze in one more over before tea.

  20. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    Dan Lawrence is coming on. This is surely one of the most unusual bowling actions in Test cricket.

    As a batter you don't know where the ball is coming from. There are arms and legs all over the place.