Summary

  • England win rain-affected game by 31 runs (DLS method)

  • Morgan (92) & Root (71) top score in England's 278-9

  • Woakes takes three wickets as SL slump to 74-5 in chase of 279

  • Stone picks up maiden ODI wicket with fiery delivery to Dickwella

  • Five wickets for Malinga on sluggish pitch

  • England go 1-0 up in five-match series

Live Reporting

Matthew Henry

  1. SL 16-1

    Dickwella 9 Chandimal 4

    Dinesh Chandimal makes the most of a bit of width from Chris Woakes to guide the ball through the off side to the boundary off the back foot.

  2. James Anderson
    England fast bowler on The Cricket Social

    Olly Stone's first ball was an absolute jaffa. It has been a good start.

  3. SL 12-1

    Dickwella 9 Chandimal 0

    Olly Stone finally gets to bowl in international cricket, after the rain prevented him on debut. He gets Niroshan Dickwella groping outside off stump from his first delivery, and his extra pace asks a few questions in a decent first over

  4. Henry Moeran
    BBC Radio 5 live in Dambulla

    Slowly but surely the ground is filling up. Huge groups of schoolchildren in immaculate white uniforms have been steadily arriving in the last hour, and Sri Lankan flags around the ground wave to the beat of the brass band that's given us everything from Stevie Wonder to Boney M.

  5. wicket

    WICKET

    Tharanga c Buttler b Woakes 9 (SL 9-1)

    What a start!

    Niroshan Dickwella clips Chris Woakes off his legs for four, and then off the next ball he's down on one knee and flicking the ball over his right shoulder and high over the boundary for another - just a couple of yards short of a maximum.

    But then off the final delivery Upul Tharanga gets a thin edge through to Jos Buttler!

    Chris WoakesReuters

  6. SL 0-0

    Upul Tharanga and Niroshan Dickwella are out and all set to face Chris Woakes.

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  7. Henry Moeran
    BBC Radio 5 live in Dambulla

    Food in the press box is delicious - but I've eaten something so spicy it's given me heart palpitations.

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    Matthew Cosby: Played the US Navy, on a car park, in a missile range. First time they played and they won.

  9. Story of the innings

    England 278-9

    Jason Roy fell to the fourth delivery of the England innings, but at 140-2 with 22 overs left a total of over 300 seemed possible.

    Eoin Morgan looked set for a century but fell for 92, caught and bowled off a leading edge by the excellent Lasith Malinga.

    Sri Lanka's experienced seamer halted England's momentum with figures of 5-44, but despite his efforts a target of 279 will be a testing one.

    MalingaAFP

  10. Strangest places you have played cricket

    tms@bbc.co.uk

    Sometime in the 1990s, a Caribbean international one-dayer was organised between St Lucia and Martinique. The location was a beach car park on Martinique. Definitely an uncovered and unprepared wicket.

    Lacking players, our daughter (then about 13 and trained at Somerset County Ground) and her Dad were recruited to the Martinique side. Against hulking great St Lucians, our daughter hit a six and more, and got at least one wicket amid scenes of Caribbean appreciation.

    She later went on to be captain of Oxford University and the first woman to get a hat trick at Lords (nursery ground) and 53 runs, beating Cambridge. It was the Caribbean car park that made her.

    Janet Grant

  11. Mike Brearley
    Former England captain on The Cricket Social

    I aimed to get everyone in the squad thinking about the game not only from a personal point of view but also from a tactical point of view. I liked to have people thinking about what we should do next. You never know where the next good idea will come from.

  12. James Anderson
    England fast bowler on The Cricket Social

    As a player you want the captain's backing. I always felt I should be like a captain. The team needs leaders. The captain has a huge job and can't always do everything. The successful teams I have been have had five or six people with leadership qualities.

  13. Mike Brearley
    Former England captain on The Cricket Social

    On Eoin Morgan's suggestions he would consider dropping himself for the World Cup next year if it benefited the team:

    I never scored enough runs. Sometimes it is worse than others. It was worst for me in Australia when I had a very bad time and I was ready to leave myself out. I was talked around by Bob Willis who was vice captain, Ian Botham and others.

    It is difficult. I think Morgan is right that it is a real option for a team. If the captain is not contributing enough and the right person is there then he should leave himself out.

    Eoin MorganReuters

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    Excellent from Malinga but credit to England's last four for seeing out the overs and ratcheting up the score.

    Richard in Sheffield

  15. The Cricket Social

    England 278-9 (50 overs)

    Former England captain Mike Brearley is still on the Cricket Social - to listen in, hit the Listen button at the top of the page above the live text.

  16. James Anderson
    England fast bowler on The Cricket Social

    I think from where Root and Morgan were, England will be a little bit disappointed that they didn't get 300-plus. They are in the game but I think they will have to bowl well to defend it.

  17. Simon Mann
    BBC Radio 5 live in Dambulla

    I think England are in the game. They are at the higher end of what previous teams have achieved on this surface. They are definitely in the game. Olly Stone played a really good hand there at the end with Adil Rashid.

    There is rain to the south. It is a question of whether it comes and hits us. If we have 20 overs of the Sri Lanka innings then that will be it, we will have a result today. If not then the game will resume tomorrow on the reserve day.

  18. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    The Cricket Social statistician

    The last wicket partnership of 24 is the highest 10th-wicket stand for England against Sri Lanka. It beats the total by James Tredwell and Harry Gurney in 2014.

  19. Henry Moeran
    BBC Radio 5 live in Dambulla

    During the Sri Lankan news conference yesterday here in Dambulla, spinner Akila Dananjaya was asked what would be a par score on this pitch. His answer? 275. England may not be overjoyed, but will be feel satisfied with their efforts.

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    Rachel T: This is a competitive total from England - Sri Lanka will be fearing that beard.