Jonny Bairstow and Alex Hales lead England rally after Sri Lanka strike

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First Test, day one: England 171-5 v Sri Lanka
Alex Hales (71*) and Jonny Bairstow (54*) counterattack from 83-5

Jonny Bairstow hits out en route to making his fifty off 60 balls

Before the rain came to wash out play beyond the tea interval, we had the makings of a game at Headingley. A first session to Sri Lanka, in the course of which a young debutant seamer managed to take three wickets for the loss of just one run, was countered in the afternoon by an unbroken retaliatory partnership of 88 in 21 overs between Alex Hales, playing what is even now comfortably his most accomplished Test innings, and Jonny Bairstow, batting with real urgency but without any recklessness, that left the day evenly poised. Hales will resume on 71 and Bairstow 54, as England, 83 for five at one stage and staring at an embarrassing start to the series, reached 171 without further loss.

England’s slump was dismally processional and to some extent self-inflicted, the mindset that suggests a moving ball can best be countered by flinging the bat at it and teeing off proving naive. But nothing should detract from the performance of the Sri Lankan seamers, who until they broke ranks a little with the advent of Bairstow, were excellent. Headingley was overcast all day, the sort of conditions in which bowlers can, and generally have, flourished; a capriciousness that tends to disappear when, or if, the clouds roll away and the sun emerges. Donate Car

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