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Anderson ten leads England’s surge to innings victory
- Updated: May 21, 2016
England 298 (Bairstow 140, Hales 86) beat Sri Lanka 91 (Anderson 5-16, Broad 4-21) and 119 (Anderson 5-29) by an innings and 88 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details
James Anderson sealed the third ten-wicket haul of his Test career, as England’s bowlers upped the intensity after a long rain delay on the third afternoon at Headingley, and powered their way to an innings-and-88 run victory with a final three-wicket flurry after tea. Anderson, fittingly, delivered the coup de grace, bowling Nuwan Pradeep for a duck to seal match figures of 10 for 45, the majority coming hand-in-glove with Jonny Bairstow, who finished the match with nine catches behind the stumps.
Despite picking off both openers during the morning session, England’s standards had visibly slipped from the heights of the second afternoon, with two dropped catches allied to some wayward lines and lengths. Unusually, Trevor Bayliss led the team-talk on the boundary’s edge as they emerged after lunch, and his words appeared to be more urgent than a simple geeing-up.
Whatever it was he said, it had the desired effect, for as soon as the rain relented, Sri Lanka’s innings began to gurgle down the drain. Moeen Ali, barely involved in the contest since his duck on the second morning, was thrown the ball for his first over of the series – ostensibly to allow Anderson and Stuart Broad to switch ends, but responded with the bonus extraction of Dinesh Chandimal for 8 – a horrible cramped cut that he chopped onto his own stumps after four balls of the resumption.
It was an irresponsible dismissal from one of Sri Lanka’s senior men (not to mention the second time in as many days that he had been removed from the fray in the first over after lunch) and it left too much riding on the shoulders of the 21-year-old Kusal Mendis – who had ridden his luck in the morning to make a …
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