Summary

  • 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

Live Reporting

Amy Lofthouse and Callum Matthews

  1. Jack Leach was much better today and you could just see that confidence click back in when he claimed his second wicket.

    Promising for England and their spin-heavy schedule.

  2. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    Test Match Special statistician

    The lowest target ever successful defended in the fourth innings in Tests is 85 in the Oval Test of 1882 - the game that launched the Ashes.

    There has been one other occasion of a team defending under 100. That was when West Indies bowled out Zimbabwe for 63 defending 99 in 2000.

    There have been a couple of low-ish scores defending at Galle. Sri Lanka bowled India out for 112 in 2015 and Pakistan for 117 in 2009.

  3. So how many runs can England knock off before the light becomes an issue? It was about this time yesterday that they went off for the day, but it doesn't look quite as dark...

  4. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    I just felt so sorry for Leach last year. All sport can do this for you. He is leading the team off.

  5. Jack Leach, smile on his face, leads the players off. Really nice to see after such a tough old time recently.

  6. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    Well played, Angelo Mathews. He was looking to run the ball into the off side. The ball spun a long way. England know what they have to do. 74 to win.

  7. wicket

    WICKET

    Mathews c Root b Leach 71 (SL 359)

    England will need 74 to win!

    Jack Leach finishes with 5-122 as he entices Angelo Mathews to edge a delivery into Joe Root's waiting mitts.

  8. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    That is two yorkers Fernando has survived from an unorthodox location.

  9. Drinks break

    There's 23 overs left in the day - or, more likely, however long the light holds for.

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  11. SL 359-9

    Backed away and blocked!

    Nicely done.

  12. Get protecting those feet, Asitha....

  13. SL 359-9

    Lead by 73 runs

    Angelo Mathews hoicks Mark Wood's fourth ball out to deep square leg and takes a single...

  14. Mickey VARthur. Lovely stuff.

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    Craig Moore: Can somebody check with Mickey Arthur that he knows on the line is out?

    Nick Thompson: Mickey VARthur is livid.

  16. SL 358-9

    Lead by 72

    Angelo Mathews has to shepherd Asitha Fernando as best he can.

    He leaves the tailender to face the final ball of the over, which he does with soft hands and a straight bat.

  17. SL 357-9

    That is a shot!

    A brutal reverse sweep from Angelo Mathews dispatches Jack Leach through deep square leg for four.

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

    I think we are going to be up again early in the morning. It might be they only need 15 or 20 runs.

  19. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special

    We came off last night for bad light at 11:42 GMT but it is a little bit brighter today.

  20. SL 353-9

    Lead by 67

    Great delivery from Mark Wood, a toe-crushing yorker, and Asitha Fernando does equally well to keep it out.

    And again! He survives. On we go.