SL 37-2published at 5 overs
Target 188
Dinesh Chandimal is warming to his task well. He anticipates Joe Denly's lack of turn and batters it through the leg side for four.
Good comeback from Denly though to concede just seven from the over.
Summary
England win by 30 runs
Joe Denly opens the bowling and takes four wickets
Denly playing first international for eight years
Adil Rashid takes 3-12 from four overs
Jason Roy, dropped four times, makes 69 from 36
Three-Test series starts on 6 November
SL 37-2published at 5 overs
Postpublished at 17:38 British Summer Time 27 October 2018
Henry Moeran
BBC Radio 5 live in ColomboView from our window isn't great...
SL 30-2published at 4 overs
Target 188
Tom Curran sends down a trademark back-of-the-hand slower ball but Dinesh Chandimal picks it and hoiks it away over the leg side for four.
And that's four more! This time Chandimal backs away and heaves it over Curran's head down the ground.
A big over for Sri Lanka - 14 from it.
SL 22-2published at 3.3 overs
Shot! Dinesh Chandimal stands tall, leans back and crashes it through the covers for four.
SL 17-2published at 3.1 overs
Tom Curran gets one into the pads of Dinesh Chandimal and appeals heartily.
Not much going for that TC, he hit it and it was going down leg.
Postpublished at 17:34 British Summer Time 27 October 2018
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WICKETpublished at 2.5 overs
Dickwella b Denly 3 (SL 16-2)
Maybe the biggest mystery is the spinner who doesn't spin the ball?
Joe Denly has his second wicket, drifting it across the left-handed Niroshan Dickwella.
The Sri Lanka keeper skips down the pitch, misses, the ball carries on its line and knocks over off-stump.
What a return to international cricket for the Kent all-rounder (I feel we can call him that now).
Why you don't leave the cricket earlypublished at 17:30 British Summer Time 27 October 2018
Here's my aforementioned mate (see 17:14) now at the airport...
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Target 188
A decent over from Tom Curran to start though, just six from it.
Not outpublished at 1.2 overs
Dickwella's dive was in time. And that's four to the total.
Third umpirepublished at 1.2 overs
It's been calamity cricket at times today.
Sri Lanka have a mix-up and Dickwella is sent back. Tom Curran picks up and throws down the stumps, with the ball deflecting away for four overthrows.
But the umpires want to check for the run out. I think the Sri Lanka keeper was safe though.
Postpublished at 17:26 British Summer Time 27 October 2018
Henry Moeran
BBC Radio 5 live in ColomboJust the 3,269 days between international wickets for Joe Denly...
Not outpublished at 1.1 overs
Yep, nothing conclusive there and the third umpire judges the ball to have bounced just shy of Alex Hales' fingers before he gathered.
Postpublished at 17:25 British Summer Time 27 October 2018
Jeers from the home crowd as the replays go up on the big screen.
These are so tough to call.
Don't think there is enough to overturn the soft signal though.
Third umpirepublished at 1.1 overs
Tom Curran is into the attack and does he have a wicket straight away?
Niroshan Dickwella pulls it sharply and Alex Hales dives forward to try and snaffle the catch.
Hales isn't too sure and neither are the umpires.
Up it goes to the third umpire. Soft signal is not out. This could be tricky.
WICKETpublished at 1 overs
Kusal Mendis b Denly 1 (SL 7-1)
Joe 'Shane Warne' Denly has a wicket!
OK, I'm joking with the comparison to the Aussie great - this one doesn't actually turn at all but skids on with a little bit of drift and Kusal Mendis plays all round it.
Stumps rearranged and England's gambit of opening with the leg-spinner pays off.
SL 6-0published at 0.3 overs
Yeesh. Joe Denly sends down one that doesn't turn and slides on with the hand across the left-handed Niroshan Dickwella, who misses. But Jos Buttler also misses it and that's four byes.
SL 1-0published at 0.1 overs
Target 188
Here we go then. Joe Denly to Niroshan Dickwella first up.
It's a loopy leg-break but just tapped away for a single.
Postpublished at 17:18 British Summer Time 27 October 2018
England are getting funky.
It looks like Joe Denly will open the bowling with his leg-spin.
We were debating on the cricket desk whether to call him a batsman or an all-rounder.
Maybe it should be bowler Joe Denly? He does do this role for Kent in domestic T20s of course though.
Postpublished at 17:14 British Summer Time 27 October 2018
I've just been sent this photo by my friend Alex Biggs, who was at the stadium and said the atmosphere was incredible.
Why 'was'? Because his flight home has been moved forward and he's had to leave to go to the airport.
You've had a mare mate, should've rebooked.
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