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Wicket alert!!

Hasaranga gone for 54, 145-4

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Another good Joe Root catch, another Woakes wicket

Lakshan gone for 2, 149-5

Moeen badgers for an LBW, umpire gives it…eventually

Mendis reviews…no bat involved…ball tracking has it hitting leg stump, just, umpire’s call…

Mendis gone for 1, 152-6

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And this is why I was hoping Sti Lanka were going to try and up the pace…

Perera holes out to Billings at deep square leg

Perera 73 (81), 152-7

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The gift of the BBC text commentators - at 143-3 they thought 270-280 looked likely and said 300 could not be ruled out :grin:

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Utter chaos all round! It culminates in a direct-hit for the run-out appeal, but only after Bairstow had fumbled a clear-cut opportunity with both batters at the same end! He makes it home by a whisker! Fernando ran three full runs to his team-mate’s one

Slow ball bouncer from Willey, loops to Ali at mid-on, simple catch

160-8

England actually get a run out, the Sri Lankan running between the sticks has been woeful…

170-9

185 all out, another run out…going for a second, good throw by Billings mind…

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Great throw!

54-1 after 5 overs…Livingstone just out for 9

A rushed hoick, and Livingstone’s flustered innings ends Bairstow’s fluent scoring somehow gets his team-mate’s adrenaline flowing instead, and a muffed attempt to claw a pull off a good length ends up in mid-on’s hands

Bairstow goes for 43, chops on to his leg stump

59-2

Morgan gone, faint nick straight to the 'keeper

74-3

Sam Billings gone, thick edge, good catch

80-4

Root, 150th ODI, another 50 and 6,000 runs, 4th fastest to that mark as well

138-4

So strange picks here

and on the wrong thread again

NB we are winning the cricket

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England

First innings161 - for4 wickets(29.4overs

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