Summary

  • 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

Live Reporting

Amy Lofthouse and Callum Matthews

  1. A change - Sam Curran is off and Stuart Broad is on.

  2. Cricketers at family celebrations

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    Eddie Rostand: I once served dinner to Michael Carberry at a wedding and wished him good luck! A few weeks later he went to Australia on that Ashes tour... cursed?

  3. 50 runs

    SL 123-1

    Trail by 163

    Another boundary for Lahiru Thirimanne, who is rather enjoying facing Jack Leach. This time it's a reverse sweep that sends the ball through point.

    I actually missed Thirimanne reaching his half-century in the last over; for someone who has been struggling so much, that is a fine contribution.

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    Not quite a cricketer at a wedding but I was sat on a table at a wedding with a guy who claimed he had been Ian Bell's best man. And I share my birthday with Ian Bell so that's got to be worth a mention.

    Dave in Charvil

  5. SL 118-1

    That should have been taken, I'm afraid.

  6. dropped catch

    Mendis dropped on 2

    Oh dear.

    Another short, wide delivery from Sam Curran and Kusal Mendis smacks it straight towards Dom Sibley at backward point. Sibley moves, gets both hands to the trajectory of the ball, and then lets it burst through his hands. That was so very catchable.

  7. Now THAT is the sort of story I'm looking for.

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    Whilst on my gap year (17 years ago!) I was volunteering in Zimbabwe. As a massive cricket fan I was delighted that the West Indies were doing a tour to Zim. I was living in Harare a couple of street from the HSC, and I dragged my friend for the matches we could go to. On my 19th birthday we were in one of the few hotel restaurants, I couldn't believe it when the staff came out with a cake followed by 20 people singing happy birthday. Turns out the West Indies team were in the same restaurant so I had the legend Brian Lara sing happy to me! My friend had spoken to a "cricket guy" at the bar and said I was a fan. The whole team were lovely and great chat, they put up with my teenage fan girling. I wish camera phones where a thing then!

    Dee Baker, 36, psychotherapist, Portsmouth

  9. SL 113-1

    A big lbw shout against Kusal Mendis ends the over, but there's nothing doing.

  10. SL 113-1

    Kusal Mendis has got a run!!

    A firm sweep off Jack Leach - had he missed it, he'd have been out - and he has that joyous, long awaited single.

  11. Pete Waterman at a model railway exhibition will be the name of my band, if I ever form one.

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    A friend and I used to have an annual celebrity-spotting contest. The only time we scored points on the same day was when I met Pete Waterman at a model railway exhibition and she Graeme Hick at a childrens' birthday party!

    Liz

  13. SL 111-1

    Trail by 175

    Four for Lahiru Thirimanne, who has looked in decent nick today, taking a leggy gift from Sam Curran and turning it away to the boundary rope.

  14. Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Sri Lanka's batting this week would be a field day for a psychologist. They have obviously got a big point to prove.

  15. SL 107-1

    Lahiru Thirimanne picks up where he left off by sweeping Jack Leach ferociously for four.

    Is that Kusal Perera off his endless run of ducks? He middles a sweep but it's cut off, cruelly, by backward square.

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  17. SL 102-1

    Trail by 184

    Joe Root has come over and fist-bumped Kusal Mendis, who took an absolute peppering at short leg yesterday when Root was batting.

    Sam Curran has to rebowl his final delivery after a no ball, but that's a tidy, and profitable, over for England.

  18. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    Mendis is a terrific player but he is going through a horrible trot. How will he play? There will be all sorts of chirping out there.

  19. Joe Root's face at that wicket was a picture.

    Now then. Kusal Mendis, who has made four ducks in a row in his last four Test innings, has arrived.

  20. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Perera did well to reach it! In carving it he has actually hit it really well. If he hadn't have hit so well it wouldn't have gone to the fielder.