Root pushes England lead towards 400

Britain stretched out their lead to 390 sudden spikes in demand for the third morning to go to Lunch at Ruler's in an extremely impressive position. Sri Lanka consistently worked on the wickets, picking three across the meeting yet Britain had the option to add 134 hurries to their short-term complete and stay in shaft position in the Test match. Ben Duckett, unbeaten short-term on 15, could add just nine hurries to his all out before he was gotten behind off Milan Rathnayake, because of a hand-off get that bounced back off chasm's mind and subsided into Angelo Mathews' hands at slip. It was a period of play where both Rathnayake and Lahiru Kumara beat the bat in ideal above conditions during their four-over opening explodes. For Ollie Pope however, it was the short ball that demonstrated challenging to arrange. What's more, it took Asitha Fernando only one conveyance to excuse the Britain chief. With the legside stuffed for the draw shot, Pope made room and cut the ball uppishly into the off-side, just to find the defender positioned at profound point. It didn't assist Sri Lanka's with causing that Harry Stream was dropped on 16 by Nishan Madushka, and to make an already difficult situation even worse, the bowler Prabath Jayasuriya was hit for a six on the exceptionally next ball. Creek and Joe Root added 58 runs for the fourth wicket before Stream was discovered off Jayasuriya's bowling in the profound, securely by Madushka this time. Brief Scores: Britain 427 and 159/4 (Root 45*, Stream 37; Rathnayake 1-11, Fernando 1-35) lead Sri Lanka 196 by 390 runs