Summary

  • Mathews hits 11th Test century, off 207 balls

  • Wood ends 117-run stand between Mathews & Chandimal

  • Anderson has Thirimanne caught behind from second ball after lunch

  • Perera caught at slip following awful shot; Fernando chops on

  • Second Test, day one, Galle, England 1-0 up in two-match series

Live Reporting

Amy Lofthouse and Matthew Henry

  1. Anderson has indeed been given a breather. Mark Wood is back.

  2. Sir Alastair Cook
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    I have fond memories of Galle. I played a couple of times there. I didn't wander around the fort too much, though.

  3. SL 101-3

    Mathews 36, Chandimal 15

    Dom Bess has a towel tucked into the back of his trousers to help him dry his fingers. His hair is drenched with sweat. Bess isn't gifted in the way Sir Alastair Cook was.

    It's one of Bess' better overs. A maiden.

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  5. Speaking of spin, Dom Bess returns after Sam Curran's wicketless spell.

  6. Sir Alastair Cook
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    It hasn't spun as much on the first day as it did in the first Test. It will spin as the game goes on, but Sri Lanka have got a real opportunity here.

  7. SL 101-3

    Four more off Anderson's bowling. Angelo Mathews gets a thick outside edge and the ball heads off to the wide third man boundary.

    Eight from the over. Anderson's figures now stand at a terribly expensive 3-14 from 10.

  8. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    Anderson will be cross about that. It's a bit of a gift on leg stump and it's the first boundary off his bowling.

  9. SL 97-3

    JAMES ANDERSON HAS CONCEDED A RUN. I REPEAT, JAMES ANDERSON HAS CONCEDED A RUN.

    In fact, it's actually four runs. Mathews flicks through mid-wicket.

  10. Anderson is going to continue...

  11. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    Sam Curran is a very expressive bowler - he runs in like he's furious.

  12. SL 93-3

    Anderson's old mate Broad is sat on the England bench in one of those yellow subs' bibs. He'll be glad of the shade at least.

    Curran scurries in for an over and Sri Lanka add a couple to their total.

  13. Alastair Cook
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    James Anderson hasn't bowled since August and it's as though he's never been away. It's quite remarkable.

  14. SL 91-3

    Anderson 9-4-6-3

    They have both been brilliant in this series but I do get what England are trying to do. I won't criticise them too much.

    Another over, another maiden from Anderson. That's his fourth of the spell and possibly his last.

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    Wouldn't it be amazing if James Anderson and Stuart Broad played in the same team?!

    Pete from Margate

  16. SL 91-3

    Mathews 27, Chandimal 14

    Curran bowls a bad ball and Chandimal takes advantage, clipping it off his two for his second four in the over.

    Root could do with an Anderson at either end.

  17. SL 87-3

    Shot. Dinesh Chandimal breaks a run of three successive maidens by driving Sam Curran through the covers to the boundary.

  18. SL 83-3

    We haven't seen much of Mickey this morning. A real shame.

    Joe Root applauds Anderson from slip.

    Mathews has a nibble at the final ball of the over. Close but no edge. Anderson has 3-6 from eight overs.

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    Mickey Arthur might be wearing long trousers but I'm suspicious that they might be the 'special trousers' which you can only order from advertisements in Sunday supplement magazines. The sort that you can unzip the legs from. The sort that turn into super short shorts.

    Roo in Oxford

  20. SL 83-3

    Run rate 2.77

    Sam Curran has so far resisted the urge to shave all his hair off for this tour of Asia. It must be hot under that thick mop.

    Dinesh Chandimal gets out the exaggerated, Steve Smith-like leave. We'll have none of that please. There'll be enough of it next winter.