England v Sri Lanka second Test, day four – live news and analysis

Hello and welcome to The Times’ live coverage of day four of the second Test between England and Sri Lanka at Lord’s with the hosts leading the series 1-0.

England clinched the first Test on the fourth day at Emirates Old Trafford by five wickets thanks to a nerveless half-century by Joe Root after a few wobbles. Now England bid to secure victory in the series in London.

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Simon Wilde writes: The first person to bat alongside Joe Root in a Test match did not take long to make his assessment. At stumps on December 13, 2012 in Nagpur, Kevin Pietersen said: “You can never judge a batsman after just a couple of hours at the crease but he [Root] showed signs that he could have a good Test career. He is a good little player.” Root was 31 not out at the time and went on to make 73 the next day.

Root was no doubt annoyed not to convert that score into a century but in recent times he has become a modern master of the art.

For a long time, Root, always a supreme technician, struggled to make as many Test hundreds as his talent warranted but he has turned that problem around spectacularly, and here, on an otherwise routine day of English domination over Sri Lanka, Root reached the top of the pile of England batsman with a 34th hundred, one clear of Sir Alastair Cook.

● Read in full: Joe Root scores record-breaking 34th hundred

Here is a reminder of the teams:

England XI: Ben Duckett, Dan Lawrence, Ollie Pope (c), Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jamie Smith, Chris Woakes, Gus Atkinson, Matthew Potts, Olly Stone, Shoaib Bashir.

Sri Lanka XI: Dimuth Karunaratne, Nishan Madushka, Pathum Nissanka, Angelo Mathews, Dinesh Chandimal, Dhananjaya de Silva (c), Kamindu Mendis, Milan Rathnayake, Prabath Jayasuriya, Asitha Fernando, Lahiru Kumara.