England v Sri Lanka, 1st Test, Headingley, 19-23 May, 2016

Jonny looks the goods here.

Rain threatening.

Jonny gunned but reviewed.

Not out. Clearly missing. He was a long way down.

Looked out live, but there you go.

Jonny cashing in, smites Herath for 6.

Review by Lanka but missing. Never looked close.

Decent 50 by Jonny under pressure.

Hales looking good for an anchoring ton here.

The two cloth-techniqued batsmen are keeping us in this... Shame they chose northern venues in May. Shame May is so shit, mind you...

So Hales saves the day, as Mudges lovechild fails. Great Trevving.

So nothing after Tea then?

Watched the first two sessions. Good comeback by England after giving the 'Lankans some early slips catching practice.

Sideways movement at Headingley in May. Truly, a 'no shit Sherlock' moment.

The movement was played pretty poorly by most of the batsmen though.... Sometimes I think the Test boys are penalised by not playing much CC, especially early doors....

That's what it looked like, Dan. Chef and Hearty were so very cautious against the military medium stuff from the Lankans, then Compton, Root, Vince and Stokes just looked out of touch, feeling tentatively for the ball.

Kudos to Jonny. He came in and said "fark this, this bowling is tosh" and treated it as such.

Brass Monkey wrote:The movement was played pretty poorly by most of the batsmen though....  Sometimes I think the Test boys are penalised by not playing much CC, especially early doors....

They have no excuse this season though. Chef, for example managed for matches for Essex

Weather looks reasonable for today's play.

An ounce of luck for Jonny with Pradeep dropping a pretty simple return catch chance. Other than that, he's looked in control.

Could be a big one here for him. And Hales.

Now Hales is dropped at 2nd slip.

Geez, he's an ungainly batsman, Hales.

Hales gets tempted by Herath and spoons one to deep cover. Decent knock, holding up his end as the collapse unfolded at the other end.

6-224.

Moeen goes for a duck, out bat-pad to Pradeep. 7-231.

Now Sturat plays Chameera on. 8-233.

Jonny fast running out of partners.