Day four: Sri Lanka 135 and 359 all out;
England 421 and 38-3Leach mops up tail as England close on win in first TestThe final hour of the fourth day in Galle threw up the type of drama that makes Test
Cricket such a bewitching sport; one of those passages of play you wish you could stick in front of the eyeballs of its money-obsessed administrators, when they talk about the format’s impending demise.
Sri Lanka had fought back admirably from their opening-day meltdown but when Jack Leach claimed his second Test five-wicket haul, eventually rolling the hosts for 359 all out with the removal of Angelo Mathews for 71, England found themselves needing a mere 74 runs to take a 1-0 lead in this two-match series.