Thirimanne 76* - dropped on 51
Highest score since 2013
Perera 62, Mendis 15
Openers Perera & Thirimanne add 101
Sri Lanka trail by 286 on first innings
England slip from 372-4 to 421 all out
Root 228 - fourth Test double century
Lawrence 73, Bairstow 47, Perera 4-109
First Test, day three, Galle
Two-Test series postponed from March
Ooft! Another top edged sweep, this time courtesy of Kusal Mendis, and the cries of catch are in vain as the ball drops into the vacant space at short fine leg.
That's a gimme, though, too short, and Mendis merrily cuts it for a smattering of runs.
YES, Paul. I would go into an essay about assuming male as the norm but I think I'm meant to talk about the cricket.
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And what would psychotherapist Dee make of Stuart's assumption (10.39) that she is a he...?
Paul, Oxford
Michael Vaughan
Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special
A little bit of the old England Test team has arrived today - a collapse and nothing from the spinners. And you can't afford to drop a Labuschagne or a Steve Smith in the Ashes.
Stuart Broad continues with his tight, stump to stump line, and works his way through another excellent maiden.
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In 2017, a couple of weeks before the Champions Trophy began, I was on a run on Thames path. As I went under Hammersmith bridge I was cut off by Jos Buttler in a group of cyclists dressed as Luigi. Turned out they were on a stag do (stag dressed as Princess Peach) stopping off at every pub on the way to Twickenham rugby 7s. I was assured that Jos was on the lemonades...
Tom in London
Trail by 156
Lahiru Thirimanne top edges a sweep just over the head of the close fielders, before Jack Leach spins a lovely delivery just past the outside edge of his bat.
Leach has to redo his final delivery after overstepping.
Ebz is right - it's drifting past leg stump As you were.
Ebony Rainford-Brent
Former England batter on BBC Test Match Special
I think it has turned too much.
Ball-tracking is taking an age.
Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special
It's not impossible, this one.
It's spun back in to Lahiru Thirimanne but it doesn't look like it'll go on to hit the stumps...
Ebony Rainford-Brent
Former England batter on BBC Test Match Special
It just doesn't feel out...
Has Jack Leach struck?
We're sending an lbw shout against Lahiru Thirimanne upstairs.
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What would a psychotherapist make of the fact that Dee Baker (10.15) felt the need to put 'psychotherapist' in his sign-off for that message?
Stuart (not a psychotherapist), London
Gosh, I miss pubs. And socialising. And leaving the house.
A leggy single is cut off by Craig Overton on the boundary - I'm not quite sure who he's on for. Stuart Broad, who is very red in the fact, completes another tidy over. Four of his six overs have been maidens.
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Met Freddie Flintoff in a bar on Broad Street on a friend's stag do around 15 years ago!
Tom in Redditch
Thirimanne 60, Mendis 3
Jack Leach is getting a good, long bowl, which he needs after spending last summer carrying the drinks.
Lahiru Thirimanne reverse sweeps, a little top edgy, but there's enough bat on ball to loop it over Joe Root's head at slip and pick up a couple of runs.
Trail by 163
Stuart Broad whirls through a maiden.
Andy Zaltzman
Test Match Special statistician
There have been 25 overs since the last maiden.