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

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  2. Drinks break

    Make Joe Root's an ice cold double.

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

    Sri Lanka have to be careful because England are just itching themselves back into the game very nicely.

  4. Eng 303-6

    Trail by 78

    Shot! Joe Root taps into whatever energy reserves he still has to shimmy forward and crack a Dilruwan Perera full toss through cover for four. Lovely, lovely batting.

    That's the 50 partnership up to boot.

  5. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    Test Match Special statistician

    Joe Root's century came up off 257 balls with his 16th four.

    In terms of the pace of his innings - the first 50 was off 65 balls, the second was off 64 balls, and the last took him another 118 deliveries.

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

    It has been high class - he has been in control.

    I like the fact that he's probably noticed he is tired so he has gone down the gears in the last hour or so. He has played very sensibly.

  7. Eng 298-6

    Trail by 83

    Joe Root has been batting for just under seven hours. That, in the heat of Galle, is a phenomenal effort.

  8. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special

    Joe Root has played absolutely brilliantly again today. It has been another masterclass.

  9. 150 runs

    150 for Root

    Brought up in typical Joe Root fashion!

    Another sweep goes whirling across the outfield and hits the rope as Root raises his bat to the dressing room, who give him a standing ovation. What an innings this is.

  10. Joe Root, on 149, faces up to Lasith Embuldeniya...

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

    Dom Bess looked like he was going to get out any ball to the spinners at the start of his innings and all of a sudden they went to the spinners. He must have thought 'thank you very much'.

    It was bizarre captaincy. They have got three spinners who are used to the conditions so he can surely rotate them?

  12. Eng 291-6

    Trail by 90

    Sri Lanka appeal for pretty much everything at the end of the over - an lbw and catch at leg slip for certain.

    Root will be on strike at the start of the next over on 149.

  13. Eng 291-6

    Root goes to 149 not out with a single off Perera...

  14. Sri Lanka have finally dispatched with the two-pronged seam attack and turned to Dilruwan Perera.

  15. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    This has been a really good effort from England because when Jonny Bairstow was out and Dan Lawrence it felt a bit ominous.

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  16. Eng 290-6

    Niroshan Dickwella is having a little chat with Dom Bess between overs. They're both smiling. There's a terrific story on Cricinfo about Dickwella translating some sledges into Urdu so he could sledge the Pakistan players in their own language, which is the definition of going above and beyond.

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

    Joe Root has played so well, hasn't he? It is unbelievable how well he has played in this series.

    Everyone else has really struggled and Root has just looked in a totally different league.

  18. Eng 288-6

    Trail by 93

    I seem to have blinked and Joe Root is on 148...

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    Adam Savoury: Joe Root may need another dozen scores like this in 2021 if we're to stand a chance in India and Australia.

  20. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    Dom Bess has a lot of character and he is revelling in this.