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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 1 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Adil Rashid over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.52 innings wickets is 0
loopy fuller ball on off, drilled down to long-off
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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 1 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.52 innings wickets is 0
pitched up on off, another easy single to long-off
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Adil Rashid over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.51 innings wickets is 0
flighted on middle, defended back
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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 1 bowler name is Lakshan Sandakan batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 6 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.52 innings wickets is 0
sees this one sliding into him and employs a sweep that goes to fine leg
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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 2 bowler name is Lakshan Sandakan batsman name is Adil Rashid over runs is 6 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.54 innings wickets is 0
slider into leg, clipped wide of long-on
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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 1 bowler name is Lakshan Sandakan batsman name is Adil Rashid over runs is 6 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.55 innings wickets is 0
flighted outside off, runs it down to long-on for one
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Lakshan Sandakan batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 6 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.54 innings wickets is 0
gets across towards off and dabs into the leg side
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Lakshan Sandakan batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 6 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.53 innings wickets is 0
skiddy turn into the pads, keeps a little low, fends it away into the midwicket region
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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 2 bowler name is Lakshan Sandakan batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 6 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.55 innings wickets is 0
slants a full toss in that's swept away to deep backward square leg
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Adil Rashid over runs is 3 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.54 innings wickets is 0
leaning onto the front foot, and blocked back down the pitch
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Adil Rashid over runs is 3 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.53 innings wickets is 0
angled across the right-hander, dead-batted back down the pitch
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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 1 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Adil Rashid over runs is 3 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.54 innings wickets is 0
on the pads, tucked softly to midwicket to keep the scoreboard moving
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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 1 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 3 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.55 innings wickets is 0
drawn forward, good confident footwork has been a feature of this innings, nurdled to mid-on
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Adil Rashid over runs is 3 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.54 innings wickets is 0
steadfast on the front foot
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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 1 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Adil Rashid over runs is 3 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.55 innings wickets is 0
too short, and whipped with helicopter wrists out behind square leg
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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 1 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Adil Rashid over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.55 innings wickets is 0
tucked to the leg side, another comfortable piece of gap-filching
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.54 innings wickets is 0
leaning onto the front foot, defended to cover
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.53 innings wickets is 0
nudged off the pads, but straight to midwicket this time
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.52 innings wickets is 0
sharply turning out of the ever-developing rough. Blocked on the back foot to cover
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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 1 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.53 innings wickets is 0
tucked to the leg side
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play type description is out batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Adil Rashid over runs is 2 dismissal is True dismissal type is caught dismissal text is 3.52 innings wickets is 0
<b>massive appeal</b>, and that's a snorter to Rashid! Bursting out of the leg-side rough, leaping past the gloves and through to Dickwella. The umpire is initially unmoved, and a relatively chastened Dickwella takes a moment to call for the <B>review</b>. But there's a thin snick of glove on UltraEdge and the decision...
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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 1 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.53 innings wickets is 0
advancing out of the crease, another measured clip into the leg-side
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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 1 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Stuart Broad over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.53 innings wickets is 0
on the pads, nudged off the hip to open his account
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.52 innings wickets is 0
tucked to midwicket once more
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.51 innings wickets is 0
confidently forward, rapped on the pad outside off stump
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.5 innings wickets is 0
very full length, dug out with a vertical bat on the crease line
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.5 innings wickets is 0
clipped off the toes, out to midwicket
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Stuart Broad over runs is 0 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.49 innings wickets is 0
solid on the front foot, blotting away the threat like a dishcloth on an ever-encroaching flood of milk
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Stuart Broad over runs is 0 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.48 innings wickets is 0
pressed back down the pitch once more
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Stuart Broad over runs is 0 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.47 innings wickets is 0
fuller length, leg-sided, tucked off the pads
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play type description is out batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Stuart Broad over runs is 0 dismissal is True dismissal type is caught dismissal text is 3.46 innings wickets is 0
<B>pop-a-doodle-doo! </b>Leaps off the pitch, into a loosely dangling inside edge, off the knee-roll, into the waiting hands of short leg. Easy pickings, and for all that Broad bowled well, he's not matched Anderson's stickability in this series
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Jack Leach over runs is 0 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.45 innings wickets is 0
<B>dropped!</b> Carbon copy of an inside edge off the pad-flap, but this time the chance flies tantalisingly wide of the diving short leg, who does at least get his outstretched right hand to it
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Jack Leach over runs is 0 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.44 innings wickets is 0
full and straight, circumspectly blocked
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.43 innings wickets is 0
pushed onto the back foot, turning from off to leg, worked with the spin to midwicket
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.42 innings wickets is 0
driven with a high elbow down to long-off
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.41 innings wickets is 0
sliding through, watchfully poked off the back foot to point
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.4 innings wickets is 0
a shimmy down the pitch, eased back to the bowler
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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 2 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.43 innings wickets is 0
well played, opens the face to glide down to third man, and they gallop back for the second
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.42 innings wickets is 0
<B>fast and flat, and zipping into the pad!</B> We've got a review coming up. Foakes whips across the line, deceived by the change-up... but it's umpire's call for a clip on leg stump. Unlucky not to get the original decision there from Umpire Ravi
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Jack Leach over runs is 0 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.41 innings wickets is 0
forward and blocked
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Jack Leach over runs is 0 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.4 innings wickets is 0
hanging back in the crease, defended
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Jack Leach over runs is 0 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.39 innings wickets is 0
<B>pops up off the knee-roll and up goes the finger!</b> Leach has <strong>reviewed </strong>straightaway as Dickwella gathers the lobbed chance ... but there's no bat involved there. Any flick of the glove? It seems not. And lbw isn't a factor either. On we go!
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Jack Leach over runs is 0 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.38 innings wickets is 0
dead-batted back down the pitch
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Jack Leach over runs is 0 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.37 innings wickets is 0
tucked off the pad to leg slip
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Jack Leach over runs is 0 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.36 innings wickets is 0
sharp turn down the leg side, no strangle there
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.36 innings wickets is 0
pumped down to long-on
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.35 innings wickets is 0
outside off, skidding through, defended on the back foot
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.34 innings wickets is 0
down on one knee for an ambitious slog sweep, but no contact there!
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.33 innings wickets is 0
playing with the spin this time, drilled to midwicket from deep in the crease
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.32 innings wickets is 0
thumped to midwicket, Foakes trying to work the angles
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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 1 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.33 innings wickets is 0
chiselled along the ground to long-on for the single
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.32 innings wickets is 0
<B>big rip from outside leg stump!</B> Dickwella gathers with a fumble, but there's no edge there
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.31 innings wickets is 0
hoisted into the leg side, lots of intent for no upshot
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.3 innings wickets is 0
thumped back to the bowler. Foakes can't find the gaps right now
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.3 innings wickets is 0
on the hip, nudged to leg, but nothing there either
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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 1 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.3 innings wickets is 0
worked into the covers this time and they jog the single
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Jack Leach over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.29 innings wickets is 0
three men close catching on the leg side as Leach works off his pads, but safely enough. Another over chalked up
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.29 innings wickets is 0
<B>massive appeal for everything!</B> It's a shout for lbw in the first instance, as Foakes misses a sweep on a very full length and is thumped on the shin, then there's a call for a catch at short leg, as the ball bobbles up and away to Kaushal. So ... the <B>lbw is missing</b> and there's <B>no inside-edge!</B> Sri L...
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.28 innings wickets is 0
flogged across the line, hitting with the spin, out to midwicket
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.27 innings wickets is 0
back of a length, biffed off the back foot to cover
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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 1 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.28 innings wickets is 0
sliding through outside off, a firm chop through point and this time Foakes reckons the single is worth taking
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Jack Leach over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.27 innings wickets is 0
driven to cover
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Jack Leach over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.26 innings wickets is 0
stunned into the covers
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 3 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.25 innings wickets is 0
swept out to the leg side
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 3 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.24 innings wickets is 0
flogged sweep, and that has <strong>nobbled short leg!</strong> Ouch, that is flush on the shoulder, no chance of calling that a catch, he was already turning turtle in anticipation of a battering. Out comes the doctor to give him a check-up
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 3 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.24 innings wickets is 0
on the pads, clipped off the toes
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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 2 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 3 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.26 innings wickets is 0
swept, in the air, but plugs safely at deep midwicket!
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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 1 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 3 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.26 innings wickets is 0
pulled out to the leg side, Foakes takes the single this time as Pushpakumara drops short
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Malinda Pushpakumara batsman name is Jack Leach over runs is 3 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.26 innings wickets is 0
Leach blots this back down the pitch. England rumble ever onwards
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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 2 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 5 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.28 innings wickets is 0
on the back foot, pumped into the gap in the covers, and that's a well-judged two runs, realised it early and went for it
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play type description is no run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 5 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.27 innings wickets is 0
flicked on the up to wide long-on. Foakes opts against the single this time
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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 2 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 5 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.29 innings wickets is 0
crashed into the gap at midwicket and that is good aggressive running, taking on the fielder, who had to steady himself to intercept a fast-travelling ball
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play type description is run batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 1 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Ben Foakes over runs is 5 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.3 innings wickets is 0
nudged to leg, Leach has two balls to survive this time
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play type description is out batting team is England bowling team is Sri Lanka total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Dilruwan Perera batsman name is Jack Leach over runs is 5 dismissal is True dismissal type is caught dismissal text is 3.29 innings wickets is 0
<B>edged and gone!</b> Leach's vigil is over, and it's five wickets for Perera - by a whisker, that front foot is encroaching once again... outside off, zipping past the edge, through to Dickwella, and <B>Sri Lanka will need 327 to win</B>
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play type description is wide batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 1 bowler name is Stuart Broad batsman name is Danushka Gunathilaka over runs is 5 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is False innings wickets is 0
whoops, barely hits the cut strip
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play type description is no run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Stuart Broad batsman name is Danushka Gunathilaka over runs is 5 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 6.0 innings wickets is 0
fizzing down the leg side
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play type description is no run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Stuart Broad batsman name is Danushka Gunathilaka over runs is 5 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.0 innings wickets is 0
sprayed outside off stump, almost rivalling the first ball for width, but umpire Ravi is nothing if consistent
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play type description is wide batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 1 bowler name is Stuart Broad batsman name is Danushka Gunathilaka over runs is 5 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 6.0 innings wickets is 0
<B>a massive wide!</B> Broad is spraying it absolutely everywhere. Harmison-esque there, though Foakes did brilliantly to reach it
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play type description is no run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Stuart Broad batsman name is Danushka Gunathilaka over runs is 5 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 4.0 innings wickets is 0
<B>absolute snorter!</B> Three outside off, one outside leg, one absolutely perfectly in the channel. Goldilocks is finding his range now
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play type description is no run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Stuart Broad batsman name is Danushka Gunathilaka over runs is 5 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.0 innings wickets is 0
in the channel again, a touch wider of off stump and left alone
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play type description is no run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Stuart Broad batsman name is Danushka Gunathilaka over runs is 5 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 2.4 innings wickets is 0
through to the keeper once more, ploughing a furrow outside off now, after that earlier range-finding
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play type description is run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 3 bowler name is Stuart Broad batsman name is Danushka Gunathilaka over runs is 5 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 5.0 innings wickets is 0
on the back foot, drilled into the covers to get the batsmen off the mark, if not the score
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play type description is no run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Moeen Ali batsman name is Danushka Gunathilaka over runs is 5 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 4.28 innings wickets is 0
pinned on the pad, but sliding down leg
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play type description is run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 1 bowler name is Moeen Ali batsman name is Danushka Gunathilaka over runs is 5 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 4.5 innings wickets is 0
bottom-handed drive into the covers
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play type description is no run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Moeen Ali batsman name is Dimuth Karunaratne over runs is 5 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 4.0 innings wickets is 0
pressing onto the front foot
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play type description is four batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 4 bowler name is Moeen Ali batsman name is Dimuth Karunaratne over runs is 5 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 6.0 innings wickets is 0
low full toss, bunted down the ground to long-off
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play type description is no run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Moeen Ali batsman name is Dimuth Karunaratne over runs is 5 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 5.45 innings wickets is 0
fully forward in defence
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play type description is no run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Moeen Ali batsman name is Dimuth Karunaratne over runs is 5 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 5.0 innings wickets is 0
stabbed to the leg side
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play type description is no run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Stuart Broad batsman name is Danushka Gunathilaka over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 4.61 innings wickets is 0
solidly into line to defend to cover
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play type description is no run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Stuart Broad batsman name is Danushka Gunathilaka over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 4.28 innings wickets is 0
tighter line outside off stump, through to the keeper
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play type description is no run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Stuart Broad batsman name is Danushka Gunathilaka over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 4.0 innings wickets is 0
lovely line now, angling across the left-hander, and through to the keeper, so tight to the splice
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play type description is run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 2 bowler name is Stuart Broad batsman name is Danushka Gunathilaka over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 4.5 innings wickets is 0
on the pads, tucked into space at deep midwicket
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play type description is no run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Stuart Broad batsman name is Danushka Gunathilaka over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 4.23 innings wickets is 0
line and length, very full and attacking the pads. Blocked back to the bowler as Foakes claps his appreciation
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play type description is no run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Stuart Broad batsman name is Danushka Gunathilaka over runs is 2 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 4.0 innings wickets is 0
defended back down the pitch
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play type description is run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 1 bowler name is Moeen Ali batsman name is Dimuth Karunaratne over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 4.1 innings wickets is 0
outside off, takes the edge and nudged down to third man
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play type description is no run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Moeen Ali batsman name is Danushka Gunathilaka over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.9 innings wickets is 0
driven hard off the front foot, into the covers
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play type description is no run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Moeen Ali batsman name is Danushka Gunathilaka over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.71 innings wickets is 0
looped up, dipping late, blocked out to point
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play type description is no run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Moeen Ali batsman name is Danushka Gunathilaka over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.54 innings wickets is 0
forward and defended to the off side
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play type description is no run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Moeen Ali batsman name is Danushka Gunathilaka over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.39 innings wickets is 0
raps the pads as the batsman props forward, but that would have been going over
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play type description is no run batting team is Sri Lanka bowling team is England total runs on delivery is 0 bowler name is Moeen Ali batsman name is Danushka Gunathilaka over runs is 1 dismissal is False dismissal type is dismissal text is 3.25 innings wickets is 0
firmly fended out to the covers
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