Bad light ends play as SL follow on
Anderson 5-16, Broad 4-21
Five catches for Bairstow
Bairstow 140, Hales 86; Shanaka 3-46
First Test of three-match series
Chameera fancies this - as full as full can be, smashing into Finn's right ankle - looks right on leg stump, but the reviews say... the reviews say it pitched fractionally outside. As you were Claude.
Eranga full and fast outside off, Finn squirting one off the edge, Silva at gully diving low to his left - no, he's muffed it, tough old snag to pull off, and despite getting both hands to it he can't hang on.
Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"Bairstow and Hales have 222 of England's runs, which is 76.5%. The highest by two batsmen in one innings is 85.1% when Kepler Wessels made 74 and Peter Kirsten 52 out of South Africa's 148 against West Indies in 1992."
Bairstow moving through the gears as Skipper Mathews brings back Chameera, cracking a short lifter over point for a crowd-rouser of a four. Single off the third ball, showing confidence in his occasional partner. Which Finn backs up with casual blocks.
Champagne from Finn, flicking a full one outside of off stump to the deep midwicket fence like King Vivi at Old Trafford '84. Partnership to 40 from 57 balls.
Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Bairstow is not going for yahoos but he's looking to be aggressive, hoping that Finn will hang around. And he has done so far."
Image source, ReutersBairstow on the bosh, clattering one over midwicket for a two-bounce four, stepping back to glide a shorter one between point and gully. Little dabber to leg, scampered two; another late glider behind point that Shanaka does well to haul back off the ropes. Looking for the strike, Bairstow bottom-edges a pull into the leg side and sprints back for the third. Splendid dash.
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Oliver Davies: Re Ian West 13:42. Are we not counting Cook's 16?
Crunching straight drive from Bairstow, half-stopped by the stinging fingers of Eranga, rolling on for a two. A single brings Finn on strike, three slips and gully waiting - screamed appeal to the one that nips away as Finn is squared up, too high on a man half his size.
Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"Finn bats properly - he gets in line - and you sense that Bairstow has got a confidence in him. And Anderson has got a Test 80 to his name."
Pradeep for a dip from the Football Stand End. A bloke in the crowd there dressed as a gingerbread man, another as Fred Flintstone. Finn, tall at the crease, flicks at one down the leg side, truncated yell from behind the timbers, only pad in that.
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Image source, ReutersBrandy: Not sure if Extras can move up the order, but finding someone to stick around at the other end might be key.
Eranga for a wobble, a mere two slips in for Bairstow, two men deep on the cover fence. Interesting set-up for a cherry. Bairstow on 103, leaving those swingers alone outside off, tucking a brace away off his pearly pads.
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James Florey: What's the highest total a team have scored when only two players have gone past 20? Are England in danger of beating it?
Ian West: Extras is joint third top scorer for England with 12. Surely time to move him up the order?
Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"England could do with a magical 45 minutes, with Bairstow taking most of the strike."
Afternoon, Fordyce here, it's been a while...
The overs lost yesterday for rain mean there's a slight change to the interval times today, with lunch taken 15 minutes later and 98 overs to be bowled in the day.
This should help you plan your day:
Panic not, relief is at hand. He's a rare appearance from Tom Fordyce.
The players are making their way out to the middle. I'm looking around for the man who should be coming into this chair, but he's nowhere to be seen. You might have to put up with me for a little longer....