England tried hard recapitulation of the third test Sunday after declaring their first sleeves with half the day remaining overs. A century of Ian Bell sumptuous gave them a 193 - run lead, but with the field more settled on the opening of trade and more resolved to Sri Lanka this time batting performance, they will be probably at least two sessions Monday to achieve a result after the visitors closed 81 runs behind on 112 for three.
It's a bold, proactive move by Andrew Strauss, who generally likes to secure a game before he said, especially with England set to bat last. But any attack of bowling to James Anderson give more than a fleeting impersonation of Graeme Pollock making 27 as a night watchman, should not be feared, and Strauss called in his batsmen at 3.05 pm.
Ambition to England to become the best Test team in the world means that they must take anticipate a habit. They certainly have the bowling attack to be bold: Anderson and Chris Tremlett showed when they rejected the two Sri Lankan openers.
Once again, Tremlett, with its height and a handful of pace is the choice of the bowlers, at least until Stuart Broad product beauty that gets rid of Mahela Jayawardene caught behind off who had left the lawn.
Their opportunity owes much to Bell, whose unbeaten 119 were 169 balls.
It was sixth test hundred in his last 20 sleeves drummer, a period where he averaged 91.4. It, in contrast to 140 in Durban, which has begun this heady scores term, was not against a large bowling attack but he had greatness in the way he released bowling Sri Lanka around the Rose Bowl.
On Saturday, Kevin Pietersen had played with impressive ease but Bell knock seemed lining extra velvet for it to that. His late cutting, fire almost lost to the modern Test cricket and quickly become a stroke for signing him, possessed the rare combination of authority and touch.
Some of the gaps that it threaded the ball through the now defensive area were so light that you would have to suspect arrogance at work, something not present in the days when Shane Warne referred to him as "Sherminator", a character in the American Pie film geek.
No there was not a hint of this reluctance Sunday, its presence, balance and vision all suggesting a man whose body and mind were one with the requirements of the Test match runmaking.
It is a State, as most of the batsmen you will tell, this happens not that often, but when it does only a self-inflicted error or a freak dismissal is likely to break the spell, and seemed likely here.
In fact, the only time it has been affected came when he had a bottom edge in its box. As expected, to a crowd in which a fair proportion would have been weaned on "Carry On" films, there was the usual end of tittering but that was soon replaced by a big cheer when a single quick showed he suffered no lasting effect. Moments later, after he cut Chanaka Welegedara for successive fours, they rose to applaud its hundreds.
A century had looked destined for Eoin Morgan, too, which casts almost and Bell. With two hundreds in one-day internationals here last year, Morgan has an affinity for the Rose Bowl and only the rush to declare, in which he and Bell took risks unusual test cricket, prevented him adding another after he was caught behind for 71 after giving himself room to smash Suranga Lakmal through the off side. As it was his own and Bell of the 137 - run partnership was a record for England for the sixth wicket against Sri Lanka.
For the second round in a row, Matt Prior was sacrificed on the altar of the needs of the team after falling for a duck as he hit. If a crushed window followed his disappointment, as he had done to the Lord where the broken component has been replaced by reinforced glass, it was not visible or audible.
Wide also went for zero, Sri bowlers of pace of Lanka willing to show him that he is not the only one who can Bowl bouncers. Rigging is not shot the tall man but broad is someone who adheres to promoter in England that "Impossible is Nothing" riff and promptly perforated off going for broke.
At this time the crowd was women pregnant may see a victory for England at the end, even if this mood dissipated quickly once it became clear the land had settled and bowlers will have to redouble our efforts for their rewards.
Their mood overshadowed briefly with clouds and the umpires decision to offer drummers of the Sri Lanka light, after tea even if this has been resolved once the projector switch had been deflected and lamps were warmed maximum brightness, a process that took about five minutes.
If it was an isolated incident that could go unnoticed, but there has been much criticism, most of it justified, on the time lost in this match.
Cricket is not airtight water and rain which fell on the opening three days made great moment of the Rose Bowl a few favours. But the dawdling over-rate, the timing of breaks and the need for each break in play to accompany men running about with isotonic beverages, must be addressed as a priority, and the price of tickets, if Test cricket is to remain as a Blue Ribbon of the game event.
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