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 376-9

    Fernando is only looking to survive but he is succeeding. This is very frustrating for England.

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    Macca Gaunt: As much as it hasn’t offered much for Leach and Bess, they haven’t kept it tight! The next two spinners we have are Ali and Parkinson, both haven’t played a red ball game for club/country since 2019!

  3. SL 376-9

    Curran has two balls at Asitha Fernando...

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  5. SL 375-9

    Tea was due at 9:10 GMT but with Sri Lanka nine down we're continuing.

  6. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    Perera played that beautifully. A little bonus for Sri Lanka.

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  7. SL 375-9

    Oh that's nice from Dilruwan 'Mahela' Perera. Wood goes for a yorker but the right-hander guides the ball down to the third man boundary.

    Perera keeps the strike too.

    Sri Lanka will be more than happy with this now.

  8. SL 369-9

    Mark Wood continues...

    He has protection out on the leg side. Perera smacks the ball out to one of those fielders and the batsmen turn down the single.

  9. SL 369-9

    Perera 56, Fernando 0

    The cameras are zooming in on Jimmy Anderson, as if to suggest he needs to ask Joe Root for the ball to finish this off. Fernando survives all six deliveries from Curran.

  10. SL 369-9

    Left-armer Sam Curran is bowling round the wicket but it has been too wide so far. Fernando has been able to watch two of the balls in the over go by.

  11. It won't be Dom Bess. He has been taken out of the attack. Joe Root turns to Sam Curran.

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    Paul McCready: Not to be too pessimistic, but England never do well batting second after a 300+ total by the opposition do they? When was the last time England surpassed a 1st innings score of 450?

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  13. SL 369-9

    Dilruwan Perera ducks under a bouncer so Bess will have an over at number 11 Fernando.

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    Andy Zaltzman
    Test Match Special statistician

    There have only been three instances since April 2008 of seamers taking all 10 wickets in an innings in Asia. Most recently was in 2019, when India skittled Bangaldesh.

    For it to happen in Sri Lanka you have to go back to 1994, when Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram skittled Sri Lanka for 91 in an unbroken stint for Pakistan.

  15. SL 369-9

    One ball left in the over. Wood needs to keep Perera down that end. For some reason Root hasn't brought the field up.

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    Stuart Ashworth: Surely Aussie great Michael Crater would have to be in the Moon XI?

  17. SL 369-9

    My word. Perera dazzles with a flamboyant flick off the pads. The England fielders hardly move. Four.

  18. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    Dom Bess has got a real stinger on the hand but that was a caught and bowled chance. Oh dear...

  19. SL 365-9

    Perera 52, Fernando 0

    It looks like it's Bess left-hand - his non-bowling hand - that took the brunt of the blow. He did get both hands to the catch, though - low down between his legs. Catchable but tough.

    Fernando sees off his first two balls.

  20. dropped catch

    Perera dropped on 51

    Perera drills the back back down the pitch and Dom Bess puts down a tough caught and bowled chance.

    It has hurt him too.