SL vs ENG 1st Test Day 4 Live Updates: The hour after lunch started badly for Sri Lanka with Chandimal’s dismissal but Dickwell and Mathews have managed to hang on, even though there have been a few close shouts. Importantly for the hosts, they are still there and closing in on that deficit. Still plenty happening off the pitch and England won’t be too tensed just yet.
Earlier, Lahiru Thirimanne’s departed after hitting a century as Sri Lanka put up a good fight back in their second innings. Meanwhile, Sam Curran removed Thirimanne while earlier Lasith Embuldeniya was removed for a duck early on Day 4 by Dom Bess. Earlier, Sri Lanka, who were bowled out for 135 in the first innings, showed significantly more resilience to reach 156-2 on Day 3 after England aided by Joe Root’s double hundred had posted 421.
England 1st Innings 421/10 – Earlier, Root’s double-century – the fourth of his Test career and his second as captain – helped England take a first-innings lead of 286 by the time they were bowled out on the brink of lunch on the third day.
The ease with which Root amassed his runs might give a somewhat misleading impression about the nature of this pitch. But while Root appeared to find life straightforward – he was last man out, caught on the long-on boundary, attempting to set-up a declaration – it might be noted that only two other men in the match to that point had made more than 30 and the last five in the England side contributed only 17 runs between them. Sri Lanka claimed six wickets in the morning session, making use of a surface, at that stage, was providing generous assistance to the spinners.
Only Wally Hammond (with seven) and Sir Alastair Cook (with five) now have more double-centuries for England. Root’s score here also represents the second-highest score by an England player in Asia after Cook’s 263 not out in Abu Dhabi in 2015.
Root surpassed 8,000 Test runs during the course of the innings.
— ICC (@ICC) January 16, 2021
| Batsmen | R | B | 4S | 6S | SR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zak Crawley | 9 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 34.61 | |
| Dom Sibley | 4 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 26.66 | |
| Jonny Bairstow | 47 | 93 | 2 | 0 | 50.53 | |
| Joe Root (C) | 228 | 321 | 18 | 1 | 71.02 | |
| Dan Lawrence | 73 | 150 | 6 | 1 | 48.66 | |
| Jos Buttler (WK) | 30 | 57 | 3 | 0 | 52.63 | |
| Sam Curran | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Dom Bess | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Jack Leach | 4 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 20.00 | |
| Mark Wood | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 22.22 | |
| Stuart Broad | 11 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 84.61 | |
| Extra | 13 (b 7, w 0, nb 6, lb 0) | |||||
| Total | 421/10 (117.1) | |||||
| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lasith Embuldeniya | 45 | 4 | 176 | 3 | 3.91 |
| Asitha Fernando | 14 | 1 | 44 | 2 | 3.14 |
| Wanindu Hasaranga | 15 | 1 | 63 | 0 | 4.20 |
| Dilruwan Perera | 36.1 | 2 | 109 | 4 | 3.01 |
| Dasun Shanaka | 7 | 1 | 22 | 0 | 3.14 |
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