England were 22-0 in reply to Sri Lanka’s first innings total of 236 all out.
MANCHESTER – Dhananjaya de Silva and debutant fast bowler Milan Rathnayake both made fine fifties as Sri Lanka recovered from a dramatic top-order collapse on Wednesday's opening day of the first Test against England at Old Trafford.
The pair checked England's progress during an eighth-wicket partnership of 63, with no other Sri Lanka batsman making more than Kusal Mendis's 24. "When you bowl on day one on a Test surface like that, to be batting at the end of the day I think you're really happy. The tourists came into their first Test in England in eight years on the back of just a solitary warm-up fixture -- a defeat by the second-string England Lions -- and it was soon clear some of their batsmen could have done with more time in the middle.Sri Lanka's collapse began in the sixth over when Dimuth Karunaratne top-edged a hook off fast bowler Gus Atkinson to wicketkeeper Jamie Smith.
Mendis, by contrast, could do little else than glove a superb 93 mph delivery from express quick Mark Wood that reared up from short of a length to second slip.
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