Summary

  • England bowl out Sri Lanka for 236 - day one report

  • Sri Lanka captain De Silva hits fluent 74 & debutant Rathnayake 72

  • Tourists show fight having slipped to 113-7

  • Woakes and Bashir take three wickets each

  • First of three Tests

  1. Sri Lanka win the toss and batpublished at 10:32 British Summer Time 21 August

    Sri Lanka skipper Dhananjaya de Silva wins the toss, and they're going to have a bat first.

    It's a little cloudy overhead which England will look to make the most of with ball in hand, and thankfully no rain around yet.

  2. Welcomepublished at 10:30 British Summer Time 21 August

    Good morning!

    A warm (ish) welcome back to Test match cricket, with England's three-match series against Sri Lanka starting at Old Trafford today.

    There's plenty of change including a new captain and a new opening batter from England's point of view, so stay with us as we build up to the first ball at 11:00 BST, with team news and the result of the toss to come shortly.