Foakes your pushes England into a dominant position

Foakes made up a hundred brilliant at its beginnings © AFP

The first session of the second day announces quite quickly as England takes control of the procedure in Galle on Wednesday 7 November. Ben Foakes Becomes First England Guardian marked a century in Sri Lanka with 342 visitors. James Anderson and Sam Curran then sacked Sri Lanka's doors as guests closed the meeting at 42 for 4.

After the opening day, Foakes admitted he was looking forward to the six-month break between cricket and the arrival of the call in England. territory unknown when he came out batting during the opening session of the Test with England in all sorts of problems. Foakes was tenacious while he was reaching his first girl at his debut in the 97th. England started the day on 321 for 8 but shortly thereafter Jack Leach slipped to 330 for 9. 9. Foakes, just left of Anderson, decided to take the aggressive lane and has blocked two borders to reach his goal.

The fireworks did not last long, however, as they were taken under cover off Suranga Lakmal. The shot, however, had given England a fighting score to dominate even when the draw with five wickets of Dilruwan Perera prevented visitors from staying in check.

Dimuth Karunaratne started the Sri Lankan heats by digging the gap between the third slip and the ravine of the first balloon. sleeves. This was not a sign of things to come though. Anderson hit on the next ball to return the first game. The left-hander went away from the guard to deliver himself and, cryptically enough, showed up for the exam. UltraEdge has seen a sharp spike while England has taken its first steps.

It was then the turn of the impressive Curran to show why he was so noted. On the wicket, he continued to take the ball away from Kaushal Silva. The right-hander was trapped in the plan and did not expect the ball to come back. When he did, in the fourth round, Silva was not up to the task and was caught off guard. Joe Root turned on the seventh end of the run and Leach was not disappointed.

Dhananjaya de Silva and Kusal Mendis were comfortable with both bowling players and the latter launched some magnificent attempts to start. But Leach managed to stop Mendis and finally fired him. In the 14th end, Leach sent for Mendis and dipped the ball. There were enough bids starting, the ball taking the outside edge and landing in the safe hands of Ben Stokes from the first slip. De Silva threw his ticket counter less than ten minutes before lunch while he was missing a regulatory delivery from Moeen Ali while he was trying to play the sweep and was losing that strain.

At 40 to 4, Sri Lanka had all kinds of problems. The question is now to know if they can find in their line-up a Foakes to challenge the visitors.

Short Sheet Music: England 342 (Ben Foakes 107, Dilruwan Perera 5-75) topped Sri Lanka 42/4 (Jack Leach 1-5) out of 300. [19659015] Cricbuzz