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

Live Reporting

by Mike Peter & Ffion Wynne

  1. SL 169-7

    Rathnayake cracks another four, cutting Bashir away to the ropes.

    We're about ten minutes from tea.

  2. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Yeah, the mullet is back in.

    I think you could brings yours back, Aggers - you're struggling on top but you could make it work on the sides.

  3. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    Matthew Potts has got a mullet, which seems to be making a comeback. Ollie Pope has got one too.

    It's pleasing for me, because I could dig out some old photos of myself with a similar hairstyle from back in the day.

  4. SL 164-7

    Better from Rathnayake!

    He lifts Potts over backward point for four - the only runs of the over.

    Fifty partnership up, off 88 deliveries.

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

    A huge hoick from Rathanayake, the first ill-disciplined shot that he's played.

    That possibly came from the pressure that was building from the players all around the bat. It was tantalisingly teasing Ben Duckett the whole way.

  6. SL 160-7

    A chance!

    Rathnayake skies Bashir, the ball heading over the head of the bowler. Both mid-on and mid-off run back - the latter, Ben Duckett, is closer, and he weaves as the ball swirls in the air, trying to get underneath in.

    He can't on this occasion, seeing the ball drop just in front of him, halfway to the boundary.

  7. Andy Zaltzman
    Statistician on Test Match Special

    I think l might struggle to get you the stats on that one, Alex.

  8. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    We often speak about men who order their shirt sizes deliberately too small, but where do we stand on Matthew Potts' trousers?

  9. SL 159-7

    Matty Potts comes back to replace Mark Wood, and De Silva sends his first delivery behind point for a single.

    Rathnayake faces four deliveries, before taking a single with a pull to retain the strike.

  10. The hotel patrons look cold on their respective balconies!

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  11. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    I've been impressed with Rathnayake, he's been solid. England are now thinking, how do we get him out? It's nothing particularly extravagant but he's just sat in, ticked things over, and allowed Dhananjaya de Silva to play his own game at the other end.

  12. SL 157-7

    For the 45th over, see the entry for the 43rd.

    Another Bashir maiden to Rathnayake, who is on 16 from 43 deliveries.

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

    It's slate grey, and gloomy. It's what you want when you come to Manchester, you want the bracing wind and some hot food, sit in the stands with a jumper on and a flask of tea.

  14. SL 157-7

    Mark Wood is unable to find the breakthrough, with Sri Lanka taking four runs from his over.

    The partnership is now worth 44.

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

    Rathnayake has been as technically correct as any of the Sri Lankan batters today. There is no reason, in terms of what the ball and pitch have done since lunch, that these two shouldn't still be batting after tea.

  17. SL 153-7

    Bashir reels out a maiden to Rathnayake, his first of the day.

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

    Sri Lanka are going to have to fight hard to get some sort of respectable innings.

  19. SL 153-7

    Rathnayake is OK to continue, very much OK in fact - he immediately takes three through the covers from Wood's yorker.

    150 up for Sri Lanka.

  20. SL 148-7

    Bit of a delay as Wood raps Rathnayake on the back hand with a sharp delivery - physio on.

    The Sri Lankan batter had just pulled Wood for two, and the England seamer immediately exacted his revenge.