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Please turn on JavaScript to use this featureA tickle off the pads brings Root a couple of runs to fine leg and Brook cuts for a single to the boundary rider.That’s better from the visitors. Jayasuriya stitches together a maiden to keep Harry Brook honest and stall the scoreboard.It just looked out eh? Plenty of club level umpires giving that or the shot alone. ‘That’ll teach you to play straight lad’.Harry Brook joins Joe Root out in the middle with 135 runs still needed for England.
Time for a drink. England need 156 to win. Sri Lanka need as many wickets as I’ve had biscuits. Plenty.My phone dings as I dip a biscuit into me cup of tea. Eleven year old nephew has been getting his Rog Bannister on it seems - apparently he’s just run a mile in five minutes. Speedy.Dan Lawrence’s footwork is positive to Jayasuriya, he gets down the pitch and works into the gaps, always looking to score as the first option.
England are not going to let Jayasuriya settle into his spell, Duckett clonks a shorter ball square for four and then shovels to midwicket for a single. SIX! Lawrence shuffles out of his crease lofts the spinner down the ground and over the rope. Confidence oozing out of these two England openers.There’s a leg slip in to Duckett and Asitha Fernando is targeting the stumps and front pad with some full and straight stuff.
Sri Lanka again have men out on both sides, which is allowing Duckett to push easy singles. Lawrence, meanwhile, chases a very wide delivery from Vishwa and toe-ends it through the slips for four. It bounced just short of slip.Mendis celebrated wildly, which suggests he didn’t know - or at least didn’t know for sure – that he’d grassed it.low catch diving to his right. But the first replay showed that he scraped the ball along the turf for a split-second after taking the catch.
The new ball has done the job for England, who have taken three wickets in the last four overs. It’s a reminder that this is a new-ball wicket; in other words, the first 15 overs of England’s runchase are huge. One thing’s for sure: there won’t be a second new ball. Kamindu gets a fine ovation for a genuinely brilliant innings of 113. England will note that in both innings he has nicked off from round the wicket. “That’s the plan for the rest of the series,” says Nasser Hussain.84th over: Sri Lanka 304-6
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