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. Joe Root may just be getting a little uncomfortable.

    He needs to get these 12 runs pretty sharpish.

  2. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    The faintest little feather!

  3. wicket

    WICKET

    Potts c Chandimal b Fernando 2 (Eng 227-8)

    What a review!

    It is the faintest of faint edges on snicko but that is all it needs to send Matthew Potts on his way.

  4. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    The bowler really likes it.

    Potts doesn't look too bothered and I didn't hear anything.

  5. Sri Lanka review

    Has Matthew Potts feathered that one?

    It is another short leg-side delivery from Asitha Fernando and not the most convincing appeal, but Dhananjaya de Silva decides to send it upstairs.

  6. Marc Higginson
    BBC Sport

    With Sri Lanka staring down the barrel of a run-chase approaching 500, they might be thinking back to their decision to field first at the toss. WG Grace wouldn't have made that decision...

    WG Grace quoteBBC Sport

  7. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    Oh, I could definitely get on board with that.

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

    I'm at the stage of my life, Aggers, where I'm being asked if I fancy a game of walking football.

  9. Eng 225-7

    Root 87, Potts 1

    Joe Root helps himself to a couple of twos with powerful sweeps to the mid-wicket boundary.

    Root is just 13 away from a record-breaking century.

  10. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    Statistician on Test Match Special

    Joe Root now has over 2,000 runs at Lord's, it's the sixth time that has been done at one specific ground.

    Graham Gooch also had over 2,000 here. The others are Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene in Colombo, Jayawardene also did it at Galle and Jacques Kallis scored more than 2,000 at Cape Town.

  11. Matthew Potts is the new batter.

    Joe Root is running out of partners here.

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

    I've seen some wickets in my time but that one is certainly up there! It's bizarre!

    Jacques Kallis didn't play many like that, let me tell you.

  13. wicket

    WICKET

    Atkinson c Kumara b Fernando 14 (Eng 220-7)

    There will not be many more Jacques Kallis comparisons with shots like that. That was extraordinary.

    I think it was an attempted reverse pull that top-edges over the wicketkeeper's head and straight to the fielder patrolling the boundary at third man.

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

    I saw some posts on social media asking whether Gus Atkinson could be the next Jacques Kallis.

    He played beautifully in the first innings here but I think that might be a bit of a jump!

  15. This was how Chris Woakes fell a few moments ago.

    Not the finest shot he will ever play.

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

    But surely, with so much time left in the game, they can allow him to get there when he's playing like this.

  17. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    Joe Root was trying to put that into the tavern. The declaration comes first, as much as we like to romanticise these personal milestones.

  18. Eng 214-6

    Joe Root has definitely got a message that the clock is ticking.

    He attempts a huge attempted heave out of the ground, before a streaky sweep top-edge flies into the air but lands safely and England run two.

  19. Gus gets shirty

    Marc Higginson
    BBC Sport at Lord's

    The Lord's museum is like Disneyland for cricket fans. I've already mentioned a couple of items which caught my eye, and this one is to do with England's man of the moment Gus Atkinson.

    The shirt he wore for his 10-fer against the West Indies earlier this summer is on display. They'll want yesterday's shirt off his back next..

    AtkinsonBBC Sport

  20. Eng 208-6

    Asitha Fernando does dish out some stuff, but Joe Root and Gus Atkinson are not afraid to take it on.

    Root moves on to 78. Are we on century watch before a declaration?

    England's lead is 439.