The game has stopped, Chandimal is getting treatment. He's removed his gloves to reveal a hand with more bandages than a mummy. Seriously, how does he get his gloves on with all that padding?

More shape and more signs of uneven bounce. Shaminda Eranga whistles one past the edge of Bairstow, then gets one to scuttle through. In fact, it bounces just before wicketkeeper Dinesh Chandimal and cops him a painful one of the left thumb.

Alex Cashman: Britain's Next Top Morkel. Cricket based game show where South African fast bowlers fiercely compete for an ECB contract.

The Club Cricketer: Breaking Brad. Teams compete to offer withering critique of Brad Hoggs cricket career. Caution: programme contains Aussie tears.

Charlie Mawer: Super Karthik Sweep - in which Dinesh has to collect items from shelves using both traditional and reverse grips of his bat.

Suranga Lakmal returns to share the new ball, charging his mullet in to Moeen, who has hogged the strike in the last 20 minutes or so. Not a great deal of swing with this new nut just yet. Atmos in Durham flatter than a Staffordshire oatcake.

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

"That's a real negative move from Mathews. We've seen one on-drive, and he's taken second slip out. That chance might not have gone to second slip, it might have gone to third, but it's negative."

Wakey, wakey. There's things happening. Hint of swing, greeted by the flow of Moeen's bat. Lovely straight drive for four. Less convincing is a flat-footed waft at a wide one, with the edge flying between the two catchers at slip and a sort of fourth slip. If you've waited that long for the new ball, why only have two catchers?

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Eng 270-5

Shiny red leather taken, Shaminda Eranga summoned. Moeen on strike. Game back on.

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

"There was that flying one-handed chance off Alex Hales that they missed, that you'd take one in 50 times, but they've caught all the others."

No atmosphere in Durham at the moment. You can almost hear each individual conversation in the crowd. One drunkard is trying to start a sing-song. Moeen pushes back Herath. New ball due. Can we get on with the the game now?

Miles Dilworth: Jones Under The Hammer: The England medical staff take drastic measures to fix Simon Jones' chronic knee injury.

Peter Blow: Countdownton Abbey. Maths based quiz filmed at Westminster Abbey. Presented by Paul Downton.

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There's two very large square boundaries at C-l-S. The boundary riders are in a different post code. Singles from Siriwardana's over. One to go until the new nut. That might be the last we see of him today.

Gareth Parkin: Cash in the Attack. Bowling attacks around the world submit their payslips in a quest to see who is the best remunerated.

Jack Alex Turner: Who wants to be a Mullallyionaire. Contestants face overs of short pitched West Indian fast bowling, increasing in speed.

KeanIn: Robot Waughs - each week a team of challengers build a robotic cricket team to take on the brothers in a 5 over shootout.

Yet more slow stuff. How have we managed to have 30 overs of spin on the first day of a Test at Chester-le-Street? There's more to come too. Bairstow single, Moeen hesitation, fumble from sub fielder Dasun Shanaka. Twelve deliveries until the new ball. I'll give you a nudge when it arrives.

England 264-5 (77 overs, won toss)

Batsmen: Bairstow 29*, Moeen 11*

Fall of wickets: 39-1 (Cook 15), 64-2 (Compton 9), 160-3 (Hales 83), 219-4 (Root 80), 227-5 (Vince 35)

Bowling: Eranga 15-2-49-0, Lakmal 15-3-52-1, Pradeep 16-3-54-2, Herath 22-1-71-0, Mathews 2-1-3-0, Siriwardena 7-0-33-2.

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Long drinks break. Some of the Sri Lanka team appear to be dabbling in some yoga.

You can join James - traffic permitting - on this evening's T20 Blast commentary, alongside Charles Dagnall, on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra after the Test finishes.

Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special

"We're getting lots of nominations for who could play Colin Milburn in the one-man play we featured at the tea interval. I like the thought of Kevin Whately, who loves his cricket. And there's Rodney Bewes, Timothy Small, Mark Benton, Sam West..."

Bairstow, backlift higher than the wicketkeeper's head, wields the willow with a crunch to take Siriwardana to the off-side sweeper. Even Moeen is looking more comfortable. We're drifting here. The contest will resume in three overs' time. In the meantime, here's a drink.

James Tweddle: Cash in the Caddick. Andrew Caddick tours the world to find out how much foreign currency he can fit in his mouth.

Mark Griffiths: Appeal or no appeal. Noel Edmonds opens boxes based on strength of an appeal. The banker (Andrew Strauss) always turns them down.

Michael Graham: Broady Shore - Stuart Broad goes bird watching in the Norfolk broads.