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 81-3

    Burns 36, Buttler 10

    Another lbw appeal, this time from Dhananjaya de Silva against Rory Burns, but the opener has been saved by a healthy inside edge.

  2. How's stat?!

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  3. Eng 79-3

    Malinda Pushpakumara changes his angle and beats Jos Buttler as he presses forward, before the number five slaps a reverse sweep in the direction of a fielder.

    That's lovely, though, another little nudge from Buttler beating the man at leg slip and adding another couple to the total.

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    Dukkhaboy: No weekend cricket here I reckon. This Test match over by tea on the third day?

    Kevin Ticehurst: Can we please have some sort of patience from our top order?! Can someone just dig in now, build a partnership?

  5. Eng 71-3

    Burns 35, Buttler 1

    A change in bowling, with off-spinner Dhananjaya de Silva replacing Dilruwan Perera.

    Jos Buttler hustles him just past leg slip to get off the mark.

  6. From the press box

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  7. Not out

    Eng 69-3

    Jos Buttler has been completely done by the flight of the ball - but he's managed to shove his foot back into his crease.

    As you were.

  8. Umpire review

    Terrific work from Niroshan Dickwella to whip the bails off as Jos Buttler stretches forward to face Malinda Pushpakumara.

  9. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent in Pallekele

    England in trouble now with the loss of their captain.

    Root pushed forward and the ball bowled him between bat and pad, which you have to put down to a technical fault.

    I don’t think Geoffrey Boycott would have been impressed.

  10. Eng 69-3

    Dilruwan 10-3-31-1

    Rory Burns, meanwhile, carries on where he left off. Another fine, hard sweep beats the close fielders and races away for four.

    A half-appeal for lbw follows as Dilruwan Perera works a delivery past Burns' bat, but it's struck him high on the back leg. Dangerous times.

  11. Well. That came out of nowhere.

    Jos Buttler is in at five.

  12. wicket

    WICKET

    Root b Pushpakumara 14 (Eng 65-3)

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    Ah.

    Joe Root has been bowled through the gate. The England skipper pushes forward, playing for turn, but he leaves a gap between bat and pad. It's a forward defensive from Root, looking nearly perfect, apart from the bit where he plays down the wrong line and gets an inside edge onto his pads and then onto his stumps. Gone.

  13. Eng 65-2

    Shot! Four more for Joe Root as he sweeps Malinda Pushpakumara into the deep, way out of reach of any of the fielders.

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    Having spent years reading early morning texts from parents up at anti-social hours following the cricket, I now find myself insisting on taking the 5am shift with our four-week-old so my wife can get some rest - only snag is every time I turn the cricket on we lose a wicket, sorry Stokes.

    Carric in London

  15. Eng 60-2

    A very tidy over from Dilruwan Perera, with Joe Root and Rory Burns exchanging singles before Root covers up in defence.

  16. I'm going to apologise to Coco on Ben Stokes' behalf.

    Dilruwan Perera, with figures of 1-26, is going to continue.

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  18. Eng 58-2

    Run rate 3.41

    Ben Stokes is currently huddled in front of a laptop, presumably watching that dismissal.

    On the field, Rory Burns plonks himself on one knee and sweeps nicely for a couple.

  19. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent in Pallekele

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    Having survived an early DRS review, Stokes wasn’t so lucky that time.

    It was so plumb I was actually surprised the umpire didn’t give him out in the first place.

    It was a good piece of bowling: a classic off-spinner's dismissal to a left-hander. It squared him up and turned enough to beat the straight bat of Stokes.

    The ball is turning and this game may not last the full five days at this rate.

  20. Eng 55-2

    Kusal Mendis' reactions at short leg are supreme!

    Rory Burns tucks into the leg side and sets off for a run, but Kusal is so quick. In one swift movement he stops the ball, balances himself and throws the ball at the stumps, which just misses. Ridiculous hand speed.