Key events

16m ago

WICKET! England 85-2 (Duckett LBW b Wellalage 29)

26m ago

WICKET! England 74-1 (Banton c Liyanaga b Wellalage 50)

34m ago

Another fifty for Tom Banton

2h ago

Team news: Rashid dropped

2h ago

Sri Lanka win the toss and bowl

2h ago

Preamble

19th over: England 107-2 (Root 21, Brook 6) Shanaka is bowling around 75mph, but the keeper (and captain) Kusal Mendis isn’t up to the stumps. That’s hard to fathom given the problems Root and Brook have had with that tactic in Test cricket. I just don’t know what’s going off out there.

Root and Brook continue to milk ones and twos. Although England have plenty of batting to come, the 13 players on the field know this is the key partnership.

18th over: England 102-2 (Root 18, Brook 4) Brook plays an indeterminate shot at Wellalage and is beaten.…