Summary

  • England go 1-0 up in three-match series - match report

  • Root anchors run-chase with unbeaten 62 off 128 balls

  • Smith adds impetus with 39 (48)

  • Sri Lanka bowled out for 326

  • Mendis makes sparkling 113 & Chandimal adds 79

  • Woakes and Potts both finish with three wickets

  • Wood does not bowl on day four because of injury - full story

Live Reporting

by Mike Peter & Ffion Wynne

  1. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Jamie SmithGetty Images

    Sri Lanka have their fifth wicket, it might be a little too late.

  2. wicket

    WICKET

    Smith b A Fernando 39 (Eng 183-5)

    Asitha strikes!

    Smith doesn't get to see England through to the win, he advances down the track to try to whip the ball expansively into the leg side and is castled by the Sri Lankan seamer.

    Again, rather curious that he spent so long out of the attack.

  3. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    There was a time when it looked in the balance. England have had to work hard to get into a match-winning position.

  4. Eng 182-4

    England need 23 runs to win

    He most certainly has, Simon.

    He whacks Vishwa's final ball for four through mid-wicket.

  5. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Jamie SmithGetty Images

    Smith has changed the whole tempo of England's pursuit of 205.

  6. Eng 174-4

    England need 31 runs to win

    Asitha Fernando returns after a long break to replace Jayasuriya and bowls a tight first over, just a couple of singles from it.

    The ground is still bathed in sunshine.

  7. Eng 172-4

    England need 33 runs to win

    Root gets off strike with a single to third, then Smith sees off two dot balls.

  8. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    By a whisker!

  9. Not out

    Phew!

    Hitting the wickets, but Root's too far down the track on impact, so the decision isn't overturned.

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

    They've got to go for it. Even though it's their last review, it's worth it.

  11. Umpire review

    Gone from the next ball?

    Root's rapped on the pad by Fernando - given not out, they're sending it upstairs.

  12. Eng 171-4

    Finally a boundary for Joe Root - from his 95th delivery.

    He guides Vishwa Fernando to third ropes.

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

    I think Jayasuriya is getting tired now. He's bowled a long stint.

  14. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    It's a long-hop but Jamie Smith doesn't mess around!

  15. 6 runs

    Eng 167-4

    Target 205

    Where'd that come from?!

    Smith picks up Jayasuriya's penultimate delivery and clouts it over mid-wicket. There's an attempt at the catch in the crowd - it's spilled and the ball disappears down the steps into the stand.

    Two more from the final ball make it 14 from the over, with England scoring from every ball. 38 more needed now, perhaps hurrying towards a conclusion?

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

    Jamie Smith is always looking positive, even in defence.

    England stagnated a little bit in the previous passage of play.

  17. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    There is a fielder at deep square leg but he just didn't pick it up. He's waving his arms in apology, just telling the bowler he simply couldn't see it.

  18. Eng 153-4

    Target 205

    Woops.

    Vishwa Fernando hurries Jamie Smith on the pull, but it doesn't matter as namesake Asitha doesn't pick the shot up from deep square and the ball has time to reach the boundary.

    150 up for England.

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

    Jamie SmithGetty Images

    It felt like a sigh of relief all around the ground when those balls reached the boundary.

  20. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Two boundaries, that relieves a lot of tension.