Summary

  • 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

Live Reporting

Amy Lofthouse and Matthew Henry

  1. Ah, I see - it's too dark for the seamers, so Lasith Embuldeniya is coming back on.

  2. There is a lot of pointing and running about going on, and not a lot of cricket happening.

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

    Joe Root has absolutely bamboozled Dinesh Chandimal. It is brilliant play, and as a captain it is hard to stop.

    Sri Lanka have to start thinking positively though. They are 1-0 down in the series and England only trail by 70.

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  4. Oh, no, it's not just me - umpire Dharmasena has the light meter out.

  5. Eng 316-6

    I can't work out if it's getting a bit dark in Galle or I've got my TV at an awkward angle...

  6. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    Test Match Special statistician

    There have been 12 instances in Test cricket of players getting double centuries in successive Tests.

    The most recent instance was Virat Kohli late in 2017 against Sri Lanka.

  7. Eng 313-6

    Another over drifts by. Sri Lanka just haven't been with it today.

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    If Root can score 198*, it will take his Test average back up to 50.00.

    Sam

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

    If you just look at body language and intensity Sri Lanka have been so poor in this session. They had to grab the moment after the wicket of Sam Curran and they've just let it drift.

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  10. Eng 312-6

    Dom Bess works his way through the rest of the over. Sri Lanka really missed a trick with bringing the seamers on to him at the start of his innings.

  11. Not out

    As you were.

  12. Umpire review

    We're going upstairs to check a stumping that isn't out, in case you're wondering how Sri Lanka's day is going.

  13. Eng 312-6

    A rare miss from Joe Root, aiming a drive at Ramesh Mendis and ending up pushing at fresh air as Dickwella collects behind the stumps.

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    Kevin Ticehurst: ROOOTTTTT!! What a machine he is.

    Pete Hotchkiss: Root has turned into a run machine.

  15. Eng 311-6

    Gosh, that's a shot. Joe Root reverse sweeps from outside leg stump to swish the ball through the despairing fielder at extra cover and into the boundary rope. Sri Lanka might never get him out, you know...

  16. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    Test Match Special statistician

    It is Joe Root's ninth score of 150-plus in Test cricket. For England only Kevin Pietersen, Len Hutton and Wally Hammond, with 10, and Alastair Cook, with 11, have more.

    In terms of a double century followed by a 150, David Gower did it in 1985, Dennis Amis in 1976 and they've got to go back to Wally Hammond who had two such runs including three in a row in the Ashes in 1928/29.

  17. Eng 306-6

    An uppish drive from Dom Bess can't beat the man at short mid-wicket, and Ramish Mendis can complete a quiet over.

  18. Ramesh Mendis is going to have a post-drinks trundle

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

    Mickey Arthur must be pulling his hair out. They got Sam Curran out just before tea and he will have said 'this is moment we need to seize in the next 40 minutes'.

    Sri Lanka just haven't been good enough. They haven't been able to put any pressure on.

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    Rooooot! You've made being up since 4:30 worth every minute!

    George