By Charles Reynolds
Dangerous mild caused an early end for the second successive day within the third and ultimate Check at The Oval, irritating an England facet in search of to finish their first males’s summer season Check whitewash since 2004.
Stand-in skipper Ollie Pope, who had earlier made the quickest Check 150 on the floor – beating Travis Head, Ian Botham and Kevin Pietersen – was pressured to bowl his spinners after tea. England conceded 62 runs in 17 overs as Sri Lanka’s finest batters this sequence, Kamindu Mendis and Dhananjaya de Silva, each hit unbeaten half centuries to take Sri Lanka to 211 for five …