Summary

  • Embuldeniya removes both England openers cheaply

  • Six-wicket haul for Anderson - becomes oldest paceman to get five wickets in Asia

  • Dickwella hits his highest Test score (92); Number eight Perera adds unbeaten 67

  • Mathews falls early, caught behind for 110

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

Live Reporting

Amy Lofthouse

  1. SL 270-6

    Well!

    Dilruwan Perera takes half a second to look at Jack Leach and plonks his first ball straight over long-on for a one-bounce four.

  2. Jack Leach is coming on for his first bowl of the day.

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    Will James: You can't beat that smug feeling of getting up early to watch live cricket overseas, only to be rewarded with early wickets. Enjoy your replays and highlights sleepy-heads.

  4. SL 266-6

    Dilruwan Perera works a single from the final ball of this latest over.

  5. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    Dickwella is renowned for playing a rash shot but we have not seen that today.

  6. 50 runs

    50 for Dickwella

    A full toss from Dom Bess, and Niroshan Dickwella pops it away for a single to bring up his half-century. A very entertaining innings.

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    Andy Zaltzman
    Test Match Special statistician

    This innings is the fourth time James Anderson has dismissed the top four batsmen in his career. That is an England record.

    SF Barnes, Stuart Broad and Neil Foster had done it three times.

    He is one of only five players in all cricket to have done it four times.

  8. Drinks break

    A very successful first hour for England.

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    Mark Stringer: As brilliant as Anderson and Wood have been to take all 6 wickets on this road of a track - does it not also highlight how poor our spinners are? Also love Sam Curran, and I think he has a huge future, but for me not worth playing on these surfaces.

  10. SL 263-6

    Dickwella 49, D Perera 1

    England's fielding in the deep has been excellent. This time it's Sam Curran, sprinting round at fine leg, who relays the ball back to the nearest fielder before it can reach the boundary.

    Mark Wood tries that leg side trap again to Niroshan Dickwella and this time he's flicked off the hips and away for four.

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

    I think England earned these two wickets with yesterday's toil. England were relentless yesterday. They gave nothing away. Full credit to them.

  12. SL 256-6

    Dom Bess doesn't quite find his line straight away, allowing Dilruwan Perera to get off the mark, and he and Niroshan Dickwella exchange a couple of singles.

  13. A change of pace for the first time today, with Dom Bess replacing Jimmy Anderson.

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    If your surname is Mendis, don't ever play against England or South Africa, you'll just get a duck!

    Sam

  15. SL 253-6

    Mark Wood whirls his way through a maiden. His speeds are still up around 90mph.

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

    It is not all lost for Sri Lanka. I know it is a different pitch but we said last week 'if only they got 150 more in the first innings' and they have this time.

  17. SL 253-6

    Shot! Niroshan Dickwella waits and waits before Jimmy Anderson finally serves up something wide outside off stump, and he drives it through the covers for four.

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    Ross: My main concern for the morning session is running out of milk...

  19. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special

    I hope England don't stop trying to get Dickwella out and just bowl at the guy at the other end. It is early to just look to bowl at one.

  20. SL 249-6

    Four for Niroshan Dickwella as he drives Mark Wood handsomely through the covers.