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Sri Lanka fight back in the London gloom

Bad light brought about an early finish for the second successive day in the third and final Test at The Oval, frustrating an England side seeking to complete their first men’s summer Test whitewash since 2004.

Derek Pringle column: DRS protocols over lbw need to change now

Master and apprentice is a phrase you often hear when Joe Root and Harry Brook are at the crease together. Yet the roles could so readily have been reversed in the Second Test against Sri Lanka at Lord’s, after the Decision Review System had both men lbw to balls clipping leg-stump.