Postpublished at 07:11 Greenwich Mean Time 17 January 2021
Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special
It's going to be a fascinating afternoon.
England slip to 14-3 - target 74
Bairstow 11*, Lawrence 7*
Sibley 2, Crawley 8, Root run out 1
Bairstow survives run-out chance
Two wickets for Embuldeniya
Sri Lanka 359: Thirimanne 111
First hundred since 2013
Mathews 71, K Perera 62
Leach 5-122, Bess 3-100
First Test, day four, Galle
Two-Test series postponed from March
Amy Lofthouse and Callum Matthews
Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special
It's going to be a fascinating afternoon.
Russel Arnold
Former Sri Lanka all-rounder on BBC Test Match Special
It's a great fightback from Sri Lanka. Credit to them - they are hanging in there. The pitch isn't crumbling and the next two hours are crucial - for both teams.
India are all out in Brisbane. From 186-6, they managed to make 336 and limit the first-innings deficit to 33 in the decisive final Test.
Shardul Thakur, playing his second Test, made 67 and debutant Washington Sundar 62 in a spirited seventh-wicket stand of 123. The highlights of that - and the day as a whole - are well worth looking up later, trust me.
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Nick: England’s spinners bowling Moeen back into the side.
Stuart Broad: 0-13 from 12 overs
Sam Curran: 2-37 from 11 overs
Dom Bess: 1-52 from 20 overs
Mark Wood: 0-34 from 11 overs
Jack Leach: 1-85 from 29 overs
Joe Root: 0-10 from six overs
Dan Lawrence: 0-10 from two overs
There's nothing wrong with Stuart Broad as far as we know, Dan.
He bowled four overs at the start of the day, and that's tended to be how it's worked. The pace bowlers have bowled three-four overs and then needed a long rest.
I presume it was pre-planned that Sam Curran and Mark Wood would take the new ball.
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Is there anything wrong with Broad? Surely your 500+ wicket bowler has the best chance of breaking through. Wood has been such a waste of a crucial new ball.
Dan, Cambridge
Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special
This is the partnership England really have to break - Sri Lanka's two most experienced batsmen.
If you're just joining us, here's what you've missed in a frustrating morning for England.
It started well as they got rid of nightwatchman Lasith Embuldeniya in the second over of the day as he looped a simple catch to Dom Sibley at short cover off spinner Dom Bess.
Opener Lahiru Thirimanne, 76 overnight, then moved to his second Test century - 2,871 days after his first.
Sam Curran had him caught by Jos Buttler via an inside edge for 111 - three overs after England took the new ball. That breakthrough ended a 52-run partnership with Angelo Mathews.
Stand-in captain Dinesh Chandimal has since shared an unbroken 32 alongside Mathews, with Sri Lanka whittling down England's first-innings advantage of 286 to just 44 at lunch.
We've got a game on our hands.
Sundar has gone for 62. On Test debut. His first first-class match since 2017. This was a man who was only on the tour so he could bowl in the nets, to replicate Nathan Lyon.
India are 328-9, trailing Australia by 41. This is some game in Brisbane.
Australia-India is the series that keeps on giving. Collapses, crushing defeats, amazing rearguards, countless injuries, and now a stirring fightback led by a player making his Test debut and who had not played a first-class game since 2017. Yes, 2017.
Washington Sundar has a simply magnificent unbeaten 60 for India, who have recovered from 186-6 on day three of the fourth Test.
He added 123 with Shardul Thakur, who made 67 in only his second Test, and India are currently 326-7 - trailing by 43 in Brisbane.
Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special
You've got to give that session to Sri Lanka. Joe Root is heading over for a very thoughtful lunch.
Thanks Amy.
Yeah, bad news for you guys. I also feel in need of a nap - but if I nap, I probably wouldn't make it back before close so we'll power through.
What a frustrating morning it's been for England. The pitch, compared to day two when it was spinning and bouncing frequently, looks fairly docile.
Right. I am in absolutely desperate need of a nap.
The much more refreshed Callum Matthews will be your guide until tea.
Ebony Rainford-Brent
Former England batter on BBC Test Match Special
You have to give a lot of credit to Sri Lanka yesterday and today. They have eaten away at that target. There's still a long way to go, but they could get ahead and get a reasonable lead.
Trail by 44
Very much Sri Lanka's session, set up by Lahiru Thirimanne's first Test century in almost eight years.
Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special
That was a spitter! That exploded. It did too much.
I just got distracted by this clip, external of Justin Langer. Not quite kicking over a bin level, but up there.
That, however, is an absolute rip snorter of a delivery from Jack Leach. Turn and bounce and a huge chunk of the pitch comes out as Dinesh Chandimal gropes forward.
Jack Leach will bowl what is likely to be the final over before lunch.
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