Cook second highest England run scorer across all forms; Hosts 279-6 at stumps on day one at Lord's
Thursday 9 June 2016 19:24, UK
Another Test match, another milestone for Alastair Cook.
Having surpassed 10,000 Test runs at Durham - becoming the first man from his country to do so - Cook eased into second place in England's list of leading run scorers across all formats as England closed on 279-6 on day one of the third Investec Test against Sri Lanka at Lord's - Jonny Bairstow scoring his third Test century.
The left-hander overtook Ian Bell (13,331) when he got to 25 and now only Kevin Pietersen (13,779) is ahead of him when runs amassed in Tests, ODIs and T20Is are combined.
Cook's half-century stands with Alex Hales (18) and Bairstow (107no) - the captain adding 56 with the former and 80 with the latter - steered the hosts to 164-4 on the verge of tea, before the left-hander was pinned in front by Nuwan Pradeep for 85.
However, while Cook impressed, there was more disappointment for Nick Compton, the No 3 snicking through to the wicketkeeper for just one as England suffered a collapse earlier in the day, shipping four wickets for 28 runs - Hales was caught at slip, Joe Root (3) given out lbw on review and James Vince (10) bowled, in addition to Compton's dismissal.
Rangana Herath had Moeen Ali (25) caught at slip in the evening session but that was the only wicket to fall after tea as Bairstow went past 50 and proceeded to reach his hundred in the penultimate over of the day.
Watch the best of action from day one in the video above and then catch all the action on day two of the third Investec Test from 10:30am on Friday, live on Sky Sports 2.
