Dilruwan Perera to Dom Sibley, FIFTY FOR DOM SIBLEY! His third in Test career and must be the most satisfying one. He gets there by nudging a delivery through square leg for a run. His teammates are up in the balcony. A knock of great character!
Dilruwan Perera to Dom Sibley, Full and floated on off, Sibley inside edges his attempted flick and it rolls towards leg slip.
Dilruwan Perera to Dom Sibley, Loopy and full on middle, Dom works it on the leg side, finds short mid-wicket.
Dilruwan Perera to Dom Sibley, Strides forward to a full ball and defends it back.
Lasith Embuldeniya to Jos Buttler, Fuller in length on the middle stump line, JB is watchful as he defends it back on the pitch.
Lasith Embuldeniya to Jos Buttler, Did not come back in enough there. Lasith Embuldeniya loops it outside off. It pitches and comes back in, only just though, not enough to trouble the batter to play at it and Jos Buttler chooses not to fiddle at that.
Lasith Embuldeniya to Jos Buttler, Comes on the front foot and fends this one out.
Lasith Embuldeniya to Jos Buttler, The batsman has just watchfully blocked this out.
Drinks break! Well, England just require another 21 runs here and there is nothing much left for the Lankans. They would only be rueing the way they batted earlier. If only they could have gotten England to chase maybe 240-250, they might have stood a better chance. But now, the writing seems to be on the wall, crystal clear. Only a matter of moments before England sweep the series 2-0... And it seems, we are just speculating that England have taken the extra half hour. The reason is we don't usually see Drinks at this stage.
Lasith Embuldeniya to Jos Buttler, Shorter length ball, outside off, this time he nurdles it wide of the man at backward point. Comes back for a couple as the deep point fielder runs and mops it up.
Lasith Embuldeniya to Jos Buttler, Turning away, outside the off pole, on a shortish length. Jos Buttler lets the ball complete its turn and stabs it to the point region.
Dilruwan Perera to Dom Sibley, Sibley is in no hurry! Tossed up delivery around middle and leg, Dom hangs back and plays it down to mid-wicket.
Dilruwan Perera to Dom Sibley, Flatter and middle, Sibley defends it from the back foot. Stays on 49!
Dilruwan Perera to Jos Buttler, Now a single! Too full and outside off, Buttler goes hard at it this time and slices his drive through backward point for a run.
Dilruwan Perera to Jos Buttler, FOUR! Boom! Buttler wants to finish it now. Too full and outside off, Jos shows his power as he dismisses it against the spin through wide mid off.
Dilruwan Perera to Dom Sibley, Forces a full ball down to long on and picks up a run.
Dilruwan Perera to Dom Sibley, Gets on the front foot and pushes a full ball back. Perera runs to his right and stops the ball.
Ramesh Mendis to Dom Sibley, NOT OUT! Umpire's call, yet again. A big off spinning delivery, landing a touch short and curving back into the batsman, Sibley goes back to work it on the leg side but misses. He is hit high on the pads, the appeal is made but nothing from the umpire. Chandimal goes for the DRS and the replays find it to be clipping the leg stump. Only consolation for Sri Lanka is that they retained their referral.
Lasith Embuldeniya to Jonny Bairstow, OUT! LBW! Jonny Bairstow was too far behind as he played at that delivery. England lose their second wicket. Flatter delivery on middle and leg, sliding on. Bairstow rocks back and looks to punch this on the off side. He though misses and gets hit on the pads. Sri Lanka appeal for the LBW and this time, umpire Kumar Dharmasena, after pondering for a little while, raises his finger. Jonny Bairstow takes it upstairs. Replays are in, the Ultra Edge says that there was no bat involved. Onto Ball Tracker then - Wickets are umpire's call and Sri Lanka would feel that finally, an umpire's call has gone their way.
Lasith Embuldeniya to Dom Sibley, A single here. Eases this fullish length ball to the right of sweeper cover and takes the only single in the over.