Summary

  • Day three, second Test, Lord's

  • Sri Lanka close on 53-2, still needing 430 to win, after bad light ends play early

  • Root catches Madushka and Nissanka to move to 200 Test catches

  • Root brings up record 34th Test century for England

  • Watch highlights on Today at the Test from 19:25 BST on BBC Two and iPlayer

Live Reporting

by Ffion Wynne & Tom Mallows

  1. SL 14-0

    Target 483

    Oh, Matthew Potts!

    Village cricket creeps into the Test arena as Potts slides to retrieve the ball with quite a straightforward bit of fielding, but he somehow ends up throwing it over the boundary rope while he's on the move.

    The spectators in front of him find it highly amusing, at least.

  2. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    This is where Sri Lanka need their senior players like Karunaratne and Chandimal to turn up, show some fight and get a score.

  3. SL 9-0

    Edged, but short of slip.

    Dimuth Karunaratne does well to play the ball late, ensuring it stays low.

    This has been a testing opening spell so far for the visiting openers.

  4. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    The way he played it, it was as though it had scuttled through and he'd jabbed the bat down on it.

  5. Not out

    A poor decision, actually.

    Paul Reiffel gives himself a disappointed head shake as the replay is shown on the big screen, with the impact way outside off stump.

  6. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    He's not hit it!

  7. SL review

    Given!

    Chris Woakes traps Dimuth Karunaratne on the pad, and umpire Paul Reiffel agrees.

    Could be a bit high, but umpire's call would be in England's favour. Karunaratne sends it upstairs.

  8. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Sri Lanka will be hoping to go in tonight just one down.

  9. SL 9-0

    Target 483

    Beautiful timing.

    Nishan Madushka strikes Sri Lanka's first boundary, clipping Gus Atkinson past mid-on.

  10. Trying to condense Joe Root's best shots into one short highlights reel must be quite hard work.

  11. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    It's a brooding sky with low level flat cloud. It's not broken all day and it's been quite chilly.

  12. SL 3-0

    Target 483

    Steady start for both sides.

    6-3, 2-1 and 35-3 have been the offerings from Sri Lanka's top order so far in the series.

    Some fight shown here would be greatly appreciated.

  13. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    If England do get a few wickets, this Saturday afternoon crowd may get boisterous.

  14. SL 1-0

    Nishan Madushka solidly defends his first ball from Chris Woakes, before taking a single to get himself and Sri Lanka going.

  15. Right, over to you, Sri Lanka.

    Just a record fourth-innings chase stands between them and levelling the series.

    No pressure, then.

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    Joe Root. Such a classy batsman, and a fantastic ambassador for the game. It’s an absolute privilege to have watched him over the last 12 years. A case of absolutely knowing what you’ve got before it’s gone. A legend.

    Paul in Swansea

  17. Cheers, Tom.

    Joe Root, eh?

  18. That was very dramatic, wasn't it?

    So dramatic that I need a bit of a lie down.

    Luckily Ffion Wynne is here to guide you through the start of the evening session and what delights it may bring.

  19. Marc Higginson
    BBC Sport at Lord's

    Sir Alastair Cook broke the record Joe Root now holds in 2012, on England's tour of India. In the next Test, a young Root made his debut in Nagpur. Symmetry.

  20. Younis Khan, Sunil Gavaskar and Brian Lara.

    Joe is in some illustrious company.