Summary

  • Leach bowls Kaushal with superb delivery as SL end day one on 26-1

  • Curran stars with bat for England - hits six sixes in stand of 60 for 10th wicket with Anderson

  • All-rounder dropped on 7 & 53 by sloppy Sri Lanka as England post 285

  • Buttler hits run-a-ball 63 on turning track; 10 of 11 wickets to fall on day one taken by spin

  • England - 1-0 up in three-game series - won toss

Live Reporting

Amy Lofthouse

  1. Eng 151-5

    Malinda Pushpakumara has lost his line and length.

    Actually, he's not so much lost them as had them pilfered by Jos Buttler.

    A low full toss is powerfully reverse-swept to the boundary.

  2. Get Involved - Sliding Doors moments

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    Arjun Singh‏: Surely Haseeb Hameed’s broken finger in India is a sliding doors moment?!

  3. Eng 147-5

    Shot! Hello Ben Foakes. The wicketkeeper gets on the front foot and caresses it through the covers for four.

  4. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent in Pallekele

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    This is a remarkable half-century by Jos Buttler under the circumstances. It's a really, really outstanding innings.

    I'm a little surprised that Lakmal is bowling as much as he is. The pitch is turning square and he's flogging in from our end and getting nothing at all.

  5. 50 runs

    50 for Buttler

    Buttler.

    England were struggling at 65-3 when Jos Buttler came in.

    They're still far from on top but Buttler has played sublimely to ensure it hasn't been total misery today.

    He's counter-attacked brilliantly, sweeping and reverse-sweeping with relish, but brings up a run-a-ball 50 with a pull into leg for a single.

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    Soumen, Bromley: Sliding doors moments x 4. Apologies to any Aussies for the recurring theme:

    • McGrath stepping on a cricket ball at Edgbaston (2005)
    • Ponting winning the toss at the same match and putting England in
    • Bowden giving Kasprowicz out in 2005 (would have been not out on DRS)
    • Ponting not picking a spinner for a Bunsen at the Oval in 2009

  7. Adam Mountford
    Radio 5 live in Pallekele

    England fan

    If you are going to look like this then you’ve got to expect to be photographed.

    Graham from Hove in the crowd at Pallekele: “I managed to get tickets for two days in Galle and I’m here for two days. It’s a wonderful experience."

  8. Eng 141-5

    Buttler taps a single to move within one of a half-century but will have to wait as Foakes hits the last ball for one to keep the strike.

  9. Eng 139-5

    For once Jos Buttler doesn't quite get the reverse sweep right and there is an appeal for lbw.

    Not out. Replays show it hit the glove on the way to the pads.

  10. Steven Mullaney
    Nottinghamshire captain on The Cricket Social

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    I can't see Ben Stokes or Moeen Ali batting at three come the first Test of the home summer. A lot will change in the winter - England have another tour to West Indies and the England Lions are in the UAE. I think Scott Borthwick has been unlucky over the past few years. He's scored a lot of runs at number three.

  11. Eng 139-5

    Buttler 48 off 47 balls

    Ben Foakes gets off the mark, pulling in front of square off Suranga Lakmal for a couple.

    Jos Buttler drives on the up off the last to pick up one and move to 48.

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    Ben Thapa: Sliding doors: in 1998 Hills Road Sixth Form (captained by me) played Bedford School. We put 180 on the board and a young, slight kid came in to open the batting. Early on he hit one back at me: I dropped it (wore it in the face). Alastair went on to make 140no..

  13. Eng 134-5

    Ben Foakes, fresh from a century on debut in Galle, strides out to join fellow wicketkeeper-batsman Jos Buttler at the crease.

    The Surrey man defends his first four balls.

    Top over from Malinda Pushpakumara - a wicket maiden.

  14. Ryan Sidebottom
    Ex-England international on The Cricket Social

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    Moeen was trying to flick it too square.

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    Moeen lbw b Pushpakumara 10 (Eng 134-5)

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    In real time it looked like it was going down leg, but there are three reds and Moeen Ali has to go!

    Malinda Pushpakumara gets it to bite after pitching outside off and stay low, with Moeen missing as he tries to flick it into the leg side.

    Niroshan Dickwella gives it great guns in appeal behind the stumps but was moving a fair way down leg.

    Suranga Lakmal saw enough to call for the review and it was a great shout. The ball was not sliding down and instead crashing into leg stump. England in a spot of bother soon after lunch.

  16. Definitely no bat involved. Here comes ball tracking...

  17. Daniel Norcross
    The Cricket Social

    I'm going clipping.

  18. Andy Zaltzman
    The Cricket Social statistician

    Suranga Lakmal has one of the most elegant review signs I've seen.

  19. Sri Lanka review

    Pushpakumara has got one to zip low onto Moeen Ali's pads.

    Huge appeal, not given. Lakmal sends it upstairs...

  20. Sliding Doors moments

    If you're not sure what a Sliding Doors moment is - it's a reference to a 1998 film starring Gwyneth Paltrow and John Hannah in which Paltrow's character narrowly misses making a tube in one timeline but makes it in another and the consequences of that unfold in separate timelines for the rest of the film.

    If you listen to Richard Herring's podcast, you'll know that literally everything is technically a Sliding Doors moment.

    But we're looking for cricket specific ones, of course.

    I'll kick you off with an obvious one - Glenn McGrath doesn't step on that ball before the Edgbaston Test in the 2005 Ashes. Do Australia then win that series?