England vs Sri Lanka, 1st Test - Live Cricket Score

This is it from us here. England were clinical. Test cricket came back after months and showed us how it has so many hidden colours draped in whites. England will party hard tonight. Mathews might want to keep a session with his compatriots, he needs to figure out how to tackle the English pace battery. He does not have much time to find the formulae. Hope he finds that soon and provides us with an even competition next time. Join us for the second Test which starts on 27th of this month. It's goodbye from Abhishek Chaudhary, Sagar Chawla, Mani and Krishna.Bairstow: Well, it was outstanding the way Jimmy bowled. It is a pleasure to keep there, you are always there in the game. We needed to exploit the conditions here. I am pleased with the way I am striking the ball, but there are still things to be worked on. It was soft, I was really annoyed actually (on him getting

disappointed after getting out). It has been absolutely fantastic, the crowd has been brilliant. It is really special for me. Really appreciate this."Bairstow is the Man of the Match for his knock of 140 and 9 catchesCook: "It was a ruthless performance, quite nice performance, good catching from us. If we had few more days (about the bad weather forecast), we would have batted again. We were not even sure about Ben. I thought Bairstow was batting on a different wicket. Even Hales allowed himself, was really disciplined. His partnership with Bairstow set the game for us. 280 was more than par on this track. It will be great to go up 2-0 as well."Mathews: "It was a tough game for us. We batted poorly.

Hales and Bairstow batted brilliantly for them, we even dropped a few catches. Bit of worries for us, but we need to regroup and bounce back hard. You just have to be fearless, the batters could have done better but it was against a top quality seam attack. Yeah, you have to give yourself some chance. You cannot make too many changes. We have got three days to comeback. It is tough against Anderson and Broad under these conditions."Time to hear from the captainsWhen Cook imposed the follow-on yesterday, many would have thought that it was asking too much from his bowlers. But that was not the case to be. The conditions were cold and nice and he had the two best soldiers for such conditions. Anderson bowled like a champion and did not break a sweat. Sri Lanka would now know that life is not going to get easier from here.So all it took was nine balls from England's seamers to dismantle the Lankan tail. It took Anderson years to get a five wicket haul here at Leeds and boy he did set the record straight bagging two in this very Test. There is not much to write about this game. The Three Lions played like lions and did not allow the Lankans the liberty to apply themselves.