Anderson round the wicket to left-hander Thirimanne, a man he has dismissed seven times in Test cricket. Two slips as the sun tries its best to poke through, Anderson leaving a read smear on his groin as he shines the ball. Just back of a length, straight, Thirimanne defending with a high front elbow. A maiden.

It's that man Woakes again, chasing a third wicket of the innings and eighth of a series that began only at Chester-le-Street. Thirimanne and Chandimal are not for budging in that over, though. One run off it.

Richard Mellor: If Woakes retains his place at Finn's expense when Stokes returns, Broad (MBE) will be batting at #10. That's frightening.

Just tuning in? Missed the wickets this morning? Well, three of them fell in six overs, two to Woakes and one to Broad. Have a gander here...

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"This is the moment after you've had a really good hour's cricket when a little bit of steam can go out of your cricket. Drinks have come at a good time for England, Cook has to tell them to keep this intensity up."

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I'll be honest, Tim, it seems like you are a man to quibble. Indeed it is James Anderson, kicking his heels from the Nursery End, skipping from side to side in order to get loose. Chandimal, who appears to be hogging the strike, gets right across his stumps in defence, then works a leggy ball fine for four. Time for drinks.

Controversial from Blofeld. I for one am firmly in favour of tomato sauce. Much better than its brown brother. More from Woakes - it's been him and Broad through the entire first hour this morning. It could soon be time for James Anderson, though. The Burnley Express is loosening up. Chandimal doing his best to quell the England charge. Maybe one over before drinks.

Henry Blofeld
BBC Test Match Special

"I think by and large we consume too much tomato sauce."

Broad gallops in towards the grand. three-tiered pavilion, stalking Chandimal with four man waiting in the grabbers. Lots of blue shirts in the crowd - is that by accident or design? Broad stands at the end of his run, gestures a drive stroke and sends Nick Compton from point to the off-side fence. Chandimal is happy to take a single in the resulting gap.

Lashing down in Salford, rain drops the size of grapes. Not of that at HQ, though the radar tells me a band of wet stuff might be very slowly making its way to the capital. Woakes, hunting a regular place in this England side, continues his examination of the touring batsmen. Dinesh Chandimal gratefully accepts a ball on the pads that he works for a couple.  

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

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"For the moment, the Sri Lankan batsmen would be well advised just to try and see off Stuart Broad - he's bowling too well."

Get a short leg in there! Thirimanne prods forward to Broad, gets an inside edge on to pad, looping the ball to wear a helmeted fielder could have been. The another inside edge, this time saving the left-hander from what would have been a very good leg before shot. Broad all over Thirimanne here, finally causing Alastair Cook for a lid to go on the head on Nick Compton.

Michael Vaughan is right, England have been bang on the money this morning. Barely a loose ball, every delivery asking the question, Sri Lanka lost in Geoffrey Boycott's Corridor of Uncertainty. Dinesh Chandimal, hundred in Durham, is the new man, having to get his feet out of the way of a spearing Woakes yorker, Terrific stuff from England.

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

"A good delivery from Woakes - it's the bounce that does for Mathews, and it was a really good catch by Joe Root. For England, the first 36 minutes have been as good as you can get as a bowling unit."