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. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    Curran has absolutely strangled him! A long hop. A remarkable dismissal.

    Curran has the look of a man who has burgled a wicket.

  2. wicket

    WICKET

    Perera c Leach b S Curran 62 (SL 101-1)

    Filth. Absolute filth.

    Sam Curran has absolutely stolen a wicket here and he knows it. It's a long hop, an awful ball, and Kusal Perera has leaned back and slapped it straight down Jack Leach's throat at deep mid-wicket. Horrible. Absolutely horrible. Curran looks faintly embarrassed as he goes to celebrate.

  3. Cricketers at family celebrations

    Text 81111

    Matt Prior and Alec Stewart both came to my grandpa's funeral. I know you asked for cricketing appearances at celebrations, but my grandpa was a Christian so the occasion did have a very celebratory feel!

    Dave, Sutton

  4. SL 100-0

    Kusal Perera chases a Jack Leach delivery down the leg side and makes a horrible mess of his pull, but it drops short of Dom Sibley at leg gully.

    Perera then sweeps, aerially but awkwardly, and gets two down to deep fine leg before bunting the next delivery in the same direction for four.

  5. Here's Jack Leach.

  6. SL 92-0

    Lahiru Thirimanne has a loose shot at the penultimate ball of the over, needlessly throwing his arms at a wide delivery from SCurran. He castigates himself as Joe Root polishes the ball at slip.

  7. SL 91-0

    Trail by 195

    Lahiru Thirimanne jogs a single first up, and poor Kusal Perera gets clattered in the ankle by a throw from Dom Bess at cover. Ouch.

  8. While you're thinking about celebrations where you've bumped into cricketers, Sam Curran is going to have a bowl.

  9. Dickie is, obviously, a massive figure in Barnsley, hence the statue.

    Has anyone ever had a cricketer pop up at one of their birthday parties? Or have you bumped into someone at a wedding? There must be one of you out there who ended up wrestling with a cricketer at a wedding buffet for the last sausage roll?

    Let us know - #bbccricket on Twitter or text 81111.

  10. Get Involved

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    Where's Matt Parkinson? Dom Bess is nothing more than a county 2nd XI bowler (that's why Somerset have shipped him out up north!) and you can't expect much from Jack Leach, who hasn't played Test cricket in over 12 months, bowling to two left-handers. The fact that Joe Root has looked our most dangerous spinner is shameful and worrying.

    Sam

    Wish England had a leggy in the team either a proper one like Parkinson or someone who bowls filth but takes wickets like Denly.

    Olly Monk

  11. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    Sri Lanka have played really well. They have been controlled. It is exactly what the doctor ordered.

  12. I know you get a lot of statues at grounds, but are there any cricketing ones dotted about in your local towns?

    This Dickie Bird one welcomes me whenever I go back home. Cracking, snowy photo courtesy of John from Barnsley.

    Dickie BirdJohn Burns

  13. Cheers, Callum.

    If this day doesn't end in Dom Sibley and Dan Lawrence having a bowl then we've failed.

  14. That's me done for the day.

    Hopefully Amy Lofthouse can find a breakthrough or two in the evening session.

  15. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special

    That's more like the controlled response everyone was looking for.

  16. Meet David Wreckham...

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  17. Tea - SL 90-0

    Trail by 196

    What a session for Sri Lanka.

    I expected to be bringing you wicket updates, but Lahiru Thirimanne and Kusal Perera have dug deep and been superb to get through to tea without any real scares.

    They've reduced the deficit to 196.

  18. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    Test Match Special statistician

    This is the highest opening partnership against England for almost three years, since David Warner and Cameron Bancroft's 122-run stand at the MCG in 2018.

  19. SL 88-0

    Trail by 198

    England definitely think they can get Lahiru Thirimanne out caught round the corner, just flicking it away.

    He got out like that in the first innings, and almost does the same this innings, albeit slightly squarer, but it falls just short of Zak Crawley.

    Time for one more over before tea.

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

    I've broken my top hand twice in my career and I could not face another ball afterwards. I think I was out for six or seven weeks.