The tourists still trail the home side by exactly 200 runs but the imperious Root is well set on 105 and will resume after the interval with Jos Buttler in what has been a trial by spin on a turning pitch.
His innings has been built around the impressive use of the sweep shot, which he has waged to take the attack to the Sri Lanka bowlers. But Jonny Bairstow never looked settled and fell on 28, an inside edge onto his pad off the dangerous home spinner Lasith Embuldeniya looping to Oshida Fernando at short leg.
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