Root bats all day for 186 - run out from last ball
Root now fourth on all-time England Test runs list after passing Pietersen & Gower
Buttler (55) and Bess (32) offer stoic support to Root
Sri Lanka spinner Embuldeniya takes seven wickets
Second Test, day three, Galle, England 1-0 up in two-match series
Fans of both cricket and Arctic Monkeys can watch Joe Root's, er, interpretation on the ukulele of one of their greatest songs over here., external
Meanwhile, Suranga Lakmal is coming on to bowl.
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Never really bettered their first track did they, the Monkeys? Trying to think of a cricket analogy but I'm too tired and miffed by the lost wicket.
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Michael Vaughan
Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special
Joe Root has pretty much made himself into a left-hander there.
Trail by 251
Shot! Joe Root hoicks Lasith Embuldeniya out of the rough with a glorious reverse sweep, almost switch hit, for four. He is so, so, so good.
Michael Vaughan
Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special
You have to take that opportunity. Beautiful bowling. Perera deceived Lawrence in the flight.
Dickwella didn't get his hands there quickly enough.
A bit of the Tim Paine's about that from Dickwella - he's been at the batsmen all morning and then he fluffs a stumping. That was probably harder than the couple that Paine missed against India, mind...
Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special
Lawrence was absolutely stranded.
Dan Lawrence, you lucky boy!
He comes dancing down the pitch and is done like a kipper by Dilruwan Perera, who spins the ball straight past him. Maybe Lawrence's flamingo-esque whip put Dickwella off but he's made a hash of that, the ball zipping past him before Dickwella gets his hands up to the ball.
Michael Vaughan
Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special
It is not going to be easy for England. Joe Root will be the key. Sri Lanka will know not many of the batsmen from now on in have had too much time in the middle.
Root 82, Lawrence 2
There's obviously lots of reasons why England wouldn't want to be bowled out cheaply, but I'd have thought the main concern would be that their seam bowlers, who took all 10 wickets, have barely had a day's rest. It's a sapping heat in Galle and it's asking a lot of them to go back out there, especially when Root can't rely on his spinners to take wickets.
Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special
It feels a bit like England are struggling to stay in the game. This is another of those big partnerships.
I'm enjoying Joe Root's good-natured tolerance of all the noise that's around the bat this morning. Big smiles between deliveries, a gentle nod here and there to Dickwella as he goes on and on. He's batting on another level to everyone else.
Andy Zaltzman
Test Match Special statistician
That was Root and Bairstow's seventh hundred partnership. The last three have all been in Sri Lanka.
Trail by 265
Dan Lawrence has come out to join Joe Root...
...and he's beaten by a beauty first up! That turned right past the outside edge. My word.
Bairstow c O Fernando b Embuldeniya 28 (Eng 116-2)
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I think Sir Alastair was right - Jonny Bairstow's immediate reaction was to turn his head and almost start to walk off the pitch as Sri Lanka appealed. It's a thin edge, bat onto pad as Bairstow pushed forward, and the ball looped to gully, where Oshada Fernando took a good snaffle.
Sir Alastair Cook
Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special
I think he might have hit it.
Oh, there's a spike...
Sir Alastair Cook
Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special
I thought Bairstow was walking off.
Has Jonny Bairstow edged this into his pads?
Oh, Sri Lanka like this!
Have they got Jonny Bairstow caught at gully? It's sent upstairs straight away...