England v Sri Lanka: first men’s Test match, day three – as it happened

Jamie Smith’s superb 111 put England in charge but Angelo Mathews led Sri Lanka’s resistance after openers wobbled

67th over: England 283-6 (Smith 89, Atkinson 11) Nope, Vishwa continues and bowls a maiden to Atkinson. Why the hell not?

“I’ve been idling away an hour in the bath reading the cricket reports, until I got distracted by wondering about the origin of the surname Brook,” writes Kim Thonger. “It is apparently a topographic name for someone who lived by a brook, stream, water-meadows or low marshy ground, from the Middle English brook Old English brōc. Seems appropriate for Harry, a veritable flowing stream of runs.

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