Summary

  • England win by six wickets - complete 2-0 series win

  • Sibley hits unbeaten half-century after England slip to 89-4

  • Embuldeniya takes 10 wickets in the match

  • Sri Lanka bowled out for 126

  • Four wickets each for Leach and Bess; two in two for Root

  • Three superb catches by Crawley at short leg

  • England add just five runs to overnight 339-9

Live Reporting

Amy Lofthouse

  1. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    Test Match Special statistician

    Joe Root scored 426 runs in four innings in this series, average of 106.5, with a strike rate of 66.

    He has played 111 sweep shots, scoring 160 runs.

  2. Eng 85-3

    Lasith Embuldeniya whips through a maiden.

  3. Funnily enough, Matt, I did wonder about that...

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    You need a different colour for unrelated updates - I saw the blue and feared the worst.

    Matt in Kent

  5. Eng 85-3

    There's about 26 overs left today, with England needing 80 runs to win. It's not panic stations just yet!

  6. Dan Lawrence joins Dom Sibley. England need to not lose their heads - plenty of time left in this game.

  7. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    A huge wicket! Sri Lanka will just start to think they've got half a sniff of victory here.

  8. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    That is a big wicket for Sri Lanka.

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    WICKET

    Root b R Mendis 11 (Eng 84-3)

    Joe Root is out!

    Everyone looks surprised! Root's gone down to sweep again, missed, and he's been bowled around his legs! It looks to have got a little high on Root and it's brushed his trouser pocket en route to the stumps. Root had a good long look at the stumps before walking off.

  10. Eng 84-2

    Oh, shot! Joe Root skips down the pitch and drives gloriously back down the ground to pick up four. So, so good.

  11. Ramesh Mendis is replacing the heroic Embuldeniya.

  12. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Just a couple of wickets would put the pressure back on England. Joe Root is the key - he is the glue of this middle order.

    I've been impressed with Dom Sibley. He was all at sea in the first three innings, but he has obviously been thinking about it.

  13. Eng 78-2

    Need 86 runs to win

    As well as two Tests against New Zealand - who are currently the world number ones - England are also scheduled to play three T20s against Sri Lanka at Cardiff and the Ageas Bowl in late June.

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  15. Eng 76-3

    Ooft! Dilruwan Perera comes perilously close to bowling Joe Root as the ball once again stays low, spinning under Root's attempted sweep and spinning into Niroshan Dickwella's gloves.

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

    A long-off is a silly position for Dom Sibley.

  17. Eng 72-2

    Target 164

    It is so easy for Joe Root to pick off the singles, just as he has done all series. You'd have thought Sri Lanka might have thought up something to stop him by now. Dom Sibley also gets in on the act with a healthy clip through mid-wicket for a couple.

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  19. Eng 66-2

    Target 164

    Dom Sibley plays out a maiden against Dilruwan Perera.

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    Those late wickets have dragged Root's Test bowling average below his batting average. Can we talk about genuine all-rounder status?

    Ed in Herefordshire