Dimuth Karunaratne begins by almost inside-edging Anderson's first delivery onto his stumps. Set the tone and all that. Eventually he's off the mark with a push to mid-off.

Jimmy Anderson has a shiny new red ball. If that isn't a sentence to bring batsmen out in a cold sweat in the middle of the night, I don't know what is. Here we go...

Roshan Abeysinghe
BBC Test Match Special

"As they walk out, I really don't see too much confidence in the Sri Lankan batsmen."

Right, here come Dimuth Karunaratne and Kaushal Silva, who have scored 54 runs between them in six innings so far in this series. Now's the time, lads! You're due!

I'm told that Simply Red are playing Chester-le-Street next week. Sri Lanka meanwhile, are left to reflect that if you don't know how to playing the moving ball in English conditions by now, you will never ever ever know...ooooohhhh...

Sri Lanka 101 (43.3 overs) - trail by 397

Not out batsman: Pradeep 2*

Fall of wickets: 10-1 (Karunaratne 9), 44-2 (Silva 13), 53-3 (Chandimal 4), 58-4 (Mathews 3), 67-5 (Mendis 35), 67-6 (Siriwardana 0), 7-88 (Herath 12), 8-90 (Eranga 2), 93-9 (Lakmal 0), 101-10 (Thirimanne 19)

Bowling: Anderson 12.3-2-36-3, Broad 13-2-40-4, Woakes 7-4-9-3, Finn 7-3-15-0, Moeen 4-4-0-0.

England 498-9 dec (Moeen 155*, Hales 83, Root 80, Pradeep 4-107)

England won toss

Full scorecard

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

"Sri Lanka have become the first team since 1958 to be bowled out for less than 120 in three consecutive Test innings."

Just to confirm, Alastair Cook has opted to go for the jugular. Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad will put their feet up for 10 minutes, then set about trying to decimate this Sri Lankan batting line-up again.

Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"Well done England, job done. Four overs to get rid of those last two. Fair play to Thirimane, trying to play a few shots."

Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special

Image source, Reuters

"Big smiles all round on England's faces. The follow-on has been enforced."

James Conlon: How many times has a side followed on every game of a series & a side only batted once each game and won them all?

Dane Le Page: I don't think England should enforce the follow on. Some of our batters need time at the crease, and this is an ideal chance...

Jimmy Graham: What are the chances of Cook popping on the pads, knocking off five runs for his 10 000 then declaring?

Pradeep gets a toe-end on it and he frantically scampers through for a single to get off strike. Just what Sri Lanka wanted. However, Thirimanne can't get a single off the final ball, which means that England will get another go at the tail-ender...

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

"Thirimane's innings is the longest of the series by any Sri Lankan batsman."

Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"Why not? He took two or three steps towards our premier bowler, it's a great shot."

Sri Lanka could be all out before I've finished my muesli here. In fact, scratch that - they could be four down in their second innings before I've finished my muesli (I'm a slow eater). James Anderson takes the ball from the other end, and that's an excellent shot from Lahiru Thirimanne, biffing Anderson back over his head for a one-bounce four. Anderson gives him a stare that would melt granite.

Richard Cope: Sri Lanka have got to be the worst side to tour here since Bangladesh's first tour.

The new batsman is Nuwan Pradeep, who is as genuine a number 11 as you'll find in Test cricket. He holds the bat almost distrustfully, like it's some sort of highly radioactive uranium rod. He manages to survive the last three balls of Broad's over, though.

Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"That seemed pretty regulation. He wanted to stay out there but he's got to troop off."