Root does well not to over-balance and survives a close stumping chance

Thought he was a gonna from his initial reaction

Good positive session for England

117/1 off 30 overs

We have a wind free test match so the likely problem might be oveheating when running after Roots 100+.

Could we see 90 over completed by 6pm ?? Bumble will be happy

Vince went for 35. He'll be disappointed but I'm sure he'll be given time.

Important that these 2 get through the final hour against the new ball if we want to post an imposing total

One of the positives in having Moeen down the order in that he has experience at facing the new ball

Jimmy looks a bit cold sat on the balcony

Moving up 1 in the order doesn't seem to have affected Bairstow

Playing with lots of confidence

sorry !!

Gone for 48

Bairstow gone for 48. Another relative disappointment.

You can tell England have had a decent day, all the doom and gloom merchants have stayed away from this thread.

You wait 'till tomorrow morning's collapse...........

I think England will be relatively happy with the score at close of play

Big opportunity in the morning to score quickly and try to get to 400+

310/6 at stumps

Sri Lanka will be relieved that theyve kept England under control for most of the day. Still 310-6 is not a score to be sniffed at and promises much for us as we go into day 2.

Too busy tomorrow. I'm off down to that big London where the streets are paved with gold

iS there a playoff or Something. Lost touch with footie these days

So annoyed not working at the game, sadly working at twickenham instead come on hull city,

Shouldn't that be Gold and Black........

Good luck and I hope it's an enjoyable day for you

I'm there at the Wednesday end... Good luck!

Not the most exciting day's play. England are in a pretty good position. Sri Lanka did OK, better than the predictions of folk who totally wrote them off, they took some excellent catches.

they still need to bat, their strong suit is their bowling and in particular pace bowling and that says something when you think sri lanka pace bowling is the best thing about their team.

SL have lost a couple of bowlers and still bowled pretty well today. Batting? We'll see. I wouldn't be putting any money on them getting a big score but I suppose you just never know....

His priority should be to win the game


He's hardly Mr Reliable though

A good solid days play yesterday but Root is beginning to worry me - his failure to turn half centuries into centuries is becoming a problem - a problem of course that many players would love to have - if they averaged 54.46!

I think that Jimmy and Stuart are going to cause absolute mayhem again when we are finally bowled out.