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Jonny Bairstow (left) and Captain Joe Root shared a sold unfinished stand for any wicket for England in Galle on the opening day of the first Test[/caption]
Skipper Joe Root (66 n.o.), with his 5oth Test-match fifty, and Jonny Bairstow (47 n.o.) --two Yorkshiremen-- carried England to a commanding position of 127/2 with a solid 110-run partnership, in their reply to the hosts' first-innings total of 135 all out, in the first cricket Test between the two countries in Galle on Thursday (14).
Scores:
SL 1st innings (won the toss and batted) 135 all out in 46.1 overs (Dinesh Chandimal 28, Angelo Mathews 27, Dasun Shanaka 23, Kusal Perera 20; Dom Bess 5/30, Stuart Broad 3/20)
England 1st innings 127/2 in 41 overs (Joe Root 66 n.o., Jonny Bairstow 47 n.o.; Lasith Embuldeniya 2/55)
Jonny Bairstow (left) and Captain Joe Root shared a sold unfinished stand for any wicket for England in Galle on the opening day of the first Test[/caption]
Skipper Joe Root (66 n.o.), with his 5oth Test-match fifty, and Jonny Bairstow (47 n.o.) --two Yorkshiremen-- carried England to a commanding position of 127/2 with a solid 110-run partnership, in their reply to the hosts' first-innings total of 135 all out, in the first cricket Test between the two countries in Galle on Thursday (14).
Scores:
SL 1st innings (won the toss and batted) 135 all out in 46.1 overs (Dinesh Chandimal 28, Angelo Mathews 27, Dasun Shanaka 23, Kusal Perera 20; Dom Bess 5/30, Stuart Broad 3/20)
England 1st innings 127/2 in 41 overs (Joe Root 66 n.o., Jonny Bairstow 47 n.o.; Lasith Embuldeniya 2/55)