Summary

  • Second T20, Cardiff

  • England win by six wickets with 7.5 overs to spare

  • England 146-4 (12.1 overs): Banton 52* (24); Rathnayake 1-25

  • Hosts take unassailable 2-0 lead in series

  • Sri Lanka 145-9 (20.0 overs): Nissanka 37 (21); Dawson 3-32

  • Watch highlights on BBC Two and iPlayer from 23:05 BST

Have your say on England men this summer

Live Reporting

by Matthew Henry & Mike Peter

  1. Russel Arnold
    Ex-Sri Lanka all-rounder on BBC Test Match Special

    You could see that coming. The help needs to come from the other end with the run-rate dropping.

  2. wicket

    WICKET

    Nissanka c Brook b Overton 37 (SL 75-3)

    Another catch at mid-on!

    Sri Lanka were only able to score five singles from the opening five balls of Jamie Overton's over - was that a bit of scoreboard pressure?

    Either way, he mis-times a pull straight to Harry Brook, who takes a simple catch.

  3. Russel Arnold
    Ex-Sri Lanka all-rounder on BBC Test Match Special

    Asalanka has got to take control of this partnership. Nissanka can anchor and still score at a good rate.

  4. How's stat?!

    Sri Lanka's scoring rate of 7.23 when facing spin is the lowest for any full member side in T20s this year.

  5. SL 70-2

    Liam Dawson's first four deliveries go for singles before Charith Asalanka makes some room and cuts a four through cover point.

    Back to a single for the final ball of the over.

  6. Russel Arnold
    Ex-Sri Lanka all-rounder on BBC Test Match Special

    The last two overs - six runs. Sri Lanka's batters will get twitchy even before they come in because they know they are playing an aggressive team.

  7. SL 61-2

    Jamie Overton enters the attack as we exit the powerplay.

    His second ball is a wide, while four more singles come off the rest of the over.

    A slower delivery comes down as a full toss, fended away by Pathum Nissanka - I think that might have been an attempted knuckle ball.

    That delivery took a wicket in Southampton.

  8. SL 56-2

    No run off the final ball of the over either as the powerplay comes to an end.

    Sri Lanka were having an excellent time of it until the last four balls.

    Two wickets and one run from Liam Dawson's first over.

  9. SL 56-2

    Charith Asalanka dabs the hat-trick ball into the leg side.

    He initially seems inclined to try and take a single, but decides against it.

  10. Dawid Malan
    Former England batter on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Very good again from Dawson. It was sliding across Mishara but you have to say you would be disappointed to do that if you are a left-handed batter against the left-arm spinner.

  11. wicket

    WICKET

    Mishara c & b Dawson 0 (SL 56-2)

    Two wickets in two balls!

    Kamil Mishara, who opened on Tuesday but swapped places with Lahiru Udara today, is dismissed off his first delivery.

    The left-handed punches the ball back to Liam Dawson, who now has the chance of a hat-trick bowling to visiting captain Charith Asalanka.

  12. Dawid Malan
    Former England batter on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Good captaincy from Harry Brook to get the tallest fielder at mid-on or mid-off.

  13. Alison Mitchell
    Test Match Special commentator

    Sri Lanka's very bright opening stand is brought to a halt.

  14. wicket

    WICKET

    Udara c Overton b Dawson 21 (SL 56-1)

    A breakthrough for England!

    Liam Dawson comes on for the final over of the powerplay and Lahiru Udara tries to launch the spinner over mid-on.

    He can't clear the towering presence of Jamie Overton, and the England fielder takes the catch with his bucket hands.

  15. Ioan Griffiths
    BBC Sport Wales reporter at Sophia Gardens

    That is not what Will Jacks would have wanted to see from his first over.

    Sri Lanka are giving England a taste of their own medicine.

  16. Dawid Malan
    Former England batter on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    These two are taking down their match-ups.

  17. SL 55-0

    Expensive from Will Jacks - 17 from the over.

    The Sri Lanka openers both sweep fours from the off-spinner, with the first of those, struck by Pathum Nissanka, bringing up Sri Lanka's half-century from 27 balls.

  18. 6 runs

    SL 44-0

    Whack!

    Pathum Nissanka welcomes Will Jacks' opening delivery with a smashed six down the ground.

    The boundaries behind the bowlers are pretty short at Sophia Gardens - dangerous territory for the spinners.

  19. How's stat?!

    Just under 20% of England's pace on deliveries have been clocked over 90mph in T20Is this year, nearly double the rate of the next highest side (South Africa, 10%).

  20. SL 38-0

    England's highest-ranked T20 seamer, Peter?

    I will confess it's not a mind-blowing second over from Jofra Archer, with two more boundaries coming from it.

    Lahiru Udara gets rather lucky for the first of those, chopping a bottom edge past his stumps and seeing it run away to the ropes.

    The second is punched through mid-wicket - both openers are now on 17.