Summary

  • Root 168*, Buttler 7*

  • Root's first Test hundred since 2019

  • Lawrence 73 on debut

  • Root & Lawrence add 173

  • Bairstow 47 - falls in second over

  • Three wickets for Embuldeniya

  • Rain wipes out evening session

  • First Test, day two, Galle

  • Two-Test series postponed from March

Live Reporting

Amy Lofthouse and Callum Matthews

  1. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    Test Match Special statistician

    This is Joe Root's eighth Test score of 150.

  2. Eng 298-3

    Lead by 163

    Shot! Joe Root rocks back again and pulls to the mid-wicket fence.

    That's 22 in three overs with the new ball. Mickey Arthur will be brewing on the Sri Lanka balcony.

  3. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special

    You feel Joe Root has his sights on a few more here. It's a muted celebration. He wants 200.

  4. 150 runs

    150 for Joe Root

    Superb from the England captain.

    How big can he go?

  5. From the virtual press box

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  6. Eng 290-3

    Lead by 155

    Double spin with the new ball as Dilruwan Perera shares it.

    He goes for four though, and England have added 14 in two overs.

    That's the problem with the new ball. It can take wickets, but it can also travel.

  7. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special

    An amazing piece of extravagance by Lawrence - where on earth did that come from?

  8. dropped catch

    Lawrence dropped on 68

    Eng 289-3

    Oh, wow!

    Dan Lawrence comes down the track, and decides to throw the absolute kitchen sink, and probably the rest of the kitchen in truth, at it.

    It catches the bottom of the bat, flicks the outside of wicketkeepers Niroshan Dickwella's gloves and flies over slip.

    Tough chance, but a missed one.

  9. Eng 286-3

    Lead by 151

    Four more for Joe Root.

    He's on the back foot again, but this time to pull through mid-wicket. He crunched that.

  10. Eng 280-3

    And the first ball with the new nut is punched away, off the back foot, by Joe Root, for four.

  11. new ball

    New ball

    Sri Lanka have decided to take the new ball.

    They absolutely need breakthroughs with it and quickly.

    There are 50 minutes till tea.

  12. Get Involved

    #bbccricket

    Arjun Singh: Can somebody please inform Mickey Arthur about why that wasn’t out as well?

  13. Eng 276-3

    Lead by 141

    The second new ball is available now. Will the hosts take it?

    The cloud cover is starting to get thicker over the ground by the way.

  14. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special

    We didn't need law 33.2.2.2. to sort that one out.

  15. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Former England women's batter on BBC Test Match Special

    That was pretty obvious.

  16. Not out

    There's a minute we're never getting back.

    Joe Root clearly sweeps it into the ground before it's caught by short leg.

    Pathetic.

  17. Umpire review

    Is Joe Root out sweeping here?

    Absolutely nobody looks interested in this, but we're going upstairs...

  18. Get Involved

    #bbccricket

    Warren Turner: Buttler might actually be able to play the ‘Buttler’ role he was brought into the Test side to play.

  19. Eng 271-3

    Lead by 136

    Lasith Embuldeniya, who has taken all three England wickets, is back on. He started with the new ball yesterday so this may be a loosener so he's ready next time round.

    England now lead by more than Sri Lanka managed first time round. The hosts are going to have to bat 100x better.

  20. Remember in the summer when we were all saying England had found their long-term openers in Dom Sibley and Rory Burns?

    I wonder if either are now looking over their shoulder with Zak Crawley, Ollie Pope and Dan Lawrence battling for, what is most likely, two places at the moment.