Sri Lanka vs England 2nd Test at Pallekele, 14 Nov, 2018

Toss: England, who chose to bat
England 285/10 (75.4)  &  346/10 (80.4)
Sri Lanka 336/10 (103)  &  243/10 (74)
England won by 57 runs
Man of the Match: Joe Root
  • Akila Dananjaya 8 * (27)

Over 25.6 Akila Dananjaya tossed up delivery to Moeen Ali, no run, gets forward and defends it down the pitch back to the bowler.

Over 26.5 Malinda Pushpakumara tossed up delivery to Moeen Ali, no run, goes down on his knee and tries to play the sweep but misses.

Over 26.6 Malinda Pushpakumara tossed up delivery to Moeen Ali, no run, moves forward and defends with a straight bat.

Over 28.2 Malinda Pushpakumara tossed up delivery to Moeen Ali,1 run, gets forward and sweeps it down to fine leg and picks up a single.

Over 28.5 Malinda Pushpakumara bowls a quicker arm ball to Moeen Ali,1 run, goes deep in the crease and  tucks it past mid-wicket, for a single

Over 29.1 Dilruwan Perera tossed up delivery to Moeen Ali, no run, gets forward and defends it to point with an opened face bat.

Over 29.2 Dilruwan Perera tossed up delivery to Moeen Ali, no run, comes on to the front foot and pushes it down the pitch back to the bowler.

Over 29.3 Dilruwan Perera tossed up delivery to Moeen Ali,1 run, gets forward and works it past backward square leg and gets a single.

Over 29.6 Dilruwan Perera bowls a quicker arm ball to Moeen Ali,1 run, gets forward and guides it past short third man with an open face bat and picks up a single.

That is Lunch on Day 1.

Over 30.1 Malinda Pushpakumara tossed up delivery to Moeen Ali, no run, comes on to the front foot and defends it to FSL.

Over 30.2 Malinda Pushpakumara tossed up delivery to Moeen Ali, no run, makes room and jams it back at the bowler.

Over 30.3 Malinda Pushpakumara tossed up delivery to Moeen Ali, 2 runs, goes down on his knee and sweeps it through square leg and picks up a couple of runs.

Over 30.4 Malinda Pushpakumara tossed up delivery to Moeen Ali, no run, gets forward and  tried to sweep from the stumps now and just about manages a faint inside edge, else he was bang in front of middle-stump

Over 30.5 Malinda Pushpakumara bowls a quicker arm ball to Moeen Ali, no run, goes on to the back foot and turns it to mid-wicket.

Over 30.6 Malinda Pushpakumara bowls a slower one to Moeen Ali,1 run, leans across and nudges it wide of mid-wicket for a single.

Over 31.1 RAS Lakmal bowls a good length delivery to Moeen Ali,1 run, gets a good a good stride as he caresses it square on the off-side, there's a fielder in the deep and it's just a single,

Over 32.1 Malinda Pushpakumara tossed up delivery to Moeen Ali,1 run, goes on to the back foot and work it past mid-wicket for a single

Over 33.3 RAS Lakmal bowls a good length delivery to Moeen Ali, no run, comes on to the front foot and left alone outside off through to the keeper.

Over 33.4 RAS Lakmal bowls a good length delivery to Moeen Ali, no run, gets cover the off stump line and happy to let it go through to the keeper.

Over 33.5 RAS Lakmal bowls a good length delivery to Moeen Ali, no run, gets forward and left alone outside off through to the keeper.

Over 33.6 RAS Lakmal bowls a good length delivery to Moeen Ali,1 run, gets forward and steered away off the back-foot to deep point, will keep strike with that single.

Over 34.1 Malinda Pushpakumara tossed up delivery to Moeen Ali, no run, stays in the crease and works it to mid-wicket.

Over 34.2 Malinda Pushpakumara bowls a quicker arm ball to Moeen Ali, out Lbw!! Moeen went back in his crease as he looked to whip and missed, struck pretty low and in front of leg-stump