Morning all and welcome to day three of the third Test at Headingley. Kind of. Activity doesn't get going until around 11am so make certain to return then for our over-by-over scope from Yorkshire, meanwhile here's a brief sneak peak of today's activity taking after a splendid second day for Alastair Cook's young men ...
Britain v Sri Lanka, first Test scoreboard
James Anderson and Stuart Broad are prone to adhere to their new Headingley course of action, in any event for the rest of the primary Investec Test against Sri Lanka.
Britain's remarkable pace pair have been scratching their heads for a long time to work out why they have not been as effective as they may trust at a venue which ought to be straight up their road.
The answer ended up being embarrassingly basic as well, for Anderson particularly, as after a change of closures - he from the Football Ground rather than Kirkstall Lane, and Broad the other way around - they shared nine wickets for 37 runs.
Sri Lanka were appropriately shot out for 91 in 36.4 overs to yield a first-innings shortage of 207 - on account of Jonny Bairstow's 140 - and ended up taking after on by the end of day two.
"We've loathed the spot for a long time, so we thought we should change closes ... that is the way profoundly we consider it ...!" Anderson said, with a grin.
"We've recently had a visit and said 'it's taken us nine years to acknowledge we've been knocking down some pins at the wrong end'.
"We've had, next to no accomplishment here - our (ground) records are truly poor.
"So we just thought 'why not give it a go? There's nothing to lose truly"'
Expansive's verifiable Headingley returns are, indeed, more great than Anderson's - incorporating a cap trap in the annihilation against these same adversaries two years prior - however the Lancastrian at any rate was not whining in the wake of completing with five for 16, having never already taken more than three in an innings here.
"We're pleased we've in the end made sense of it, and got some prizes today," he included.
"The pitch is altogether different to a typical Headingley one - there's more in it for the bowlers.
"When it's swinging that way, that is my optimal conditions. I discover it a considerable measure of fun."
Bairstow, seemingly, had significantly more to grin about in the wake of supporting England's 298 - his first Test century on the home ground where his late father and kindred Yorkshire wicketkeeper David played for a long time - and after that holding five gets.
"It's one of those days that won't come round too often, I wouldn't think," he said.
"There's no preferred spot to do it over at your home ground ... it's been a while coming."
Bairstow's mom Janet, who is on the organization staff at Headingley, was available - as when he made his first Test hundred at Cape Town four months back.
"Mum was here, simply up on the third floor - I knew precisely where she was," he said.
"To make a hundred at your home ground, the history and the legacy that Yorkshire and England have here as well as family-wise, it's truly satisfying.
"I'm certain mum will have had a glass of wine to celebrate."