Match Details
Players per side
England 16 ( 11 batting, 11 fielding); Sri Lanka Board XI 15 ( 11 batting, 11 fielding)
Toss
Sri Lanka Board XI , elected to bat first
Season
Match days
30.31 October 2018 (2-day match)
Stokes was struck when attempting to pull a short delivery from Lahiru Kumara
There was a fifty for Moeen Ali, too, but Joe Denly and Keaton Jennings were less convincing in their stints at the crease
For all the talk of England searching for a "different formula", there was a wearing familiarity to their approach on the first day of the red-ball leg of their tour