The first test match between England and Sri Lanka which is currently going on at Lord’s cricket ground, London was evenly poised when the play ended on the second day. Replying to the huge score posted by the hosts, Sri Lanka also made a very good start and had lost only 1 wicket for 140 runs when the last ball of the day was bowled.

Earlier in the day, Joe Root carried on batting as well as he was doing on the first day and ended up scoring the first double century of his career. As soon as he got to that landmark, the English captain Alastair Cook declared the innings.

Root must be grateful to the English tail-enders for helping him to get that magical figure. Almost all the lower order players from the England side showed the grit to stand with him there and helped him keep going ahead.

The Poms were just 25 short of 600 when Cook called his batsmen back and asked the opposition team to get out there batting.

James Anderson and Stuart Broad got a bit of movement with the new ball, but, they couldn’t make the Sri Lankan openers play regularly and thus, couldn’t induce the edge early on.

Chris Jordan who was brought as the first change, however, provided his team the breakthrough in his very first over, but, that remained the only Sri Lankan wicket to fall in the day.

Kumar Sangakkara walked in after that and he along with the other opener Kaushal Silva made sure that the rest of the day passed without any damage being done to his team.

Now, Sri Lanka needs to bat the entire third day with a lot of caution and try and save the follow on first.

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