Summary

  • England win with 17 balls to spare

  • Lead 1-0 in three-match series

  • Buttler 68* (55), Roy 36 (22)

  • Sri Lanka 129-7: Shanaka 50 (44)

  • Rashid 2-17, Curran 2-25

  • Jordan takes three catches

  • Woakes' first T20 since 2015

  1. Postpublished at 18:53 British Summer Time 23 June 2021

    Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Test Match Special

    Are they finding their groove a little bit?

  2. SL 26-1published at 4 overs

    Gunathilaka 15, Perera 8

    Oh, and four more!

    Danushka Gunathilaka gives himself room and, with a few steps down the pitch, launches Mark Wood over Chris Jordan's head and into the boundary rope.

  3. Postpublished at 18:52 British Summer Time 23 June 2021

    James Anderson
    England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    It's the first time we've seen him try to hit the ball hard along the ground. You don't have to go aerial - you can find gaps on the floor.

  4. SL 22-1published at 3.4 overs

    Shot!

    Stand and deliver stuff from Danushka Gunathilaka, who smacks Mark Wood back past him for four.

  5. Postpublished at 18:51 British Summer Time 23 June 2021

    James Anderson
    England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Mark Wood is a fun character but he takes his bowling very seriously. He is a different character when he has the ball in his hands.

  6. SL 18-1published at 3.4 overs

    Mark Wood's first delivery is a casual 91mph, but the pace seems to come right out of it the second the ball hits the pitch, and Danushka Gunathilaka can't quite hoick it over the infield.

    Kusal Perera, rather awkwardly, pulls a Wood bouncer around the corner for a single.

  7. Postpublished at 18:48 British Summer Time 23 June 2021

    Here's Mark Wood.

  8. SL 16-1published at 3 overs

    Now that's more like it - Sam Curran leaps over the ball at mid-wicket and Gunathilaka gets the first boundary of the innings with a thumping swing of the bat.

    Curran holds his hands up in apology to Woakes, who looks more than a touch disgruntled.

  9. Postpublished at 18:47 British Summer Time 23 June 2021

    James Anderson
    England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Woakes is just trying to hit good areas - not trying to do anything fancy with it. He's trying to make the batsman hit a good shot.

  10. SL 10-1published at 2.3 overs

    Chris Woakes, who has a trendy grey streak at the front of his quiff, sends down a few slower balls that Danushka Gunathilaka can't muscle past the fielders.

  11. Postpublished at 18:42 British Summer Time 23 June 2021

    Tomorrow's T20 is live on the BBC, and we've spoken to maybe the nicest man in cricket*, Mark Wood, about what it takes to be a ridicugood fast bowler.

    (*no offence to Chris Woakes)

  12. SL 9-1published at 2 overs

    Captain Kusal Perera is the next batter out, and he's immediately subject to a half-hearted caught behind appeal to a delivery that he missed by a mile.

    Danushka Gunathilaka attempts a horrible scoop shot to Sam Curan that, much to the bowler's frustration, is called wide.

  13. Postpublished at 18:39 British Summer Time 23 June 2021

    James Anderson
    England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    It was a juicy half-volley. You'd expect that sort of ball to be put away in international cricket. He's sort of in between going on the ground and going aerial.

  14. Postpublished at 18:39 British Summer Time 23 June 2021

    Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Test Match Special

    He was put under some very, very tight bowling from England.

  15. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 1.3 overs

    Fernando c Jordan b Curran 0 (SL 3-1)

    Whoops.

    Avishka Fernando goes after a slower ball from Sam Curran but he can't get underneath it, and instead ends up pinging the simplest of catches to Chris Jordan at mid-off. That's... not a great look.

  16. Postpublished at 18:36 British Summer Time 23 June 2021

    Here's Sam Curran, who has had a much-needed haircut.

  17. Postpublished at 18:36 British Summer Time 23 June 2021

    James Anderson
    England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Because of the amount of cricket Chris Woakes has played over the years, he has stepped back from T20 cricket - that was England's chance to give him a rest. He has played the last few years in the IPL and picked up loads of experience there. Twenty20 isn't that much different to ODI cricket, and he has been the main guy in England's 50-over team.

  18. SL 2-0published at 1 over

    A very tidy over from Chris Woakes.

    Meanwhile, New Zealand have just become your world Test champions. Lovely stuff.

  19. SL 1-0published at 0.3 overs

    No-one should take any fashion advice from Jimmy Anderson. We all remember that jacket from last year's T20.

    Gunathilaka advances but spears a drive along the ground to the man at point, before Sri Lanka get off the mark as Woakes spears a delivery down the leg side.

  20. Postpublished at 18:32 British Summer Time 23 June 2021

    James Anderson
    England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Erm, England's kit is eye-catching. That's what they want, isn't it?