Seems they understood their mistakes and learnt a lot from their first innings and as a result played well in second innings and made 359 as against 135 in first innings. Though England massive score of 421 in first innings have put them in driver’s seat and though they lost 3 wickets for just 38 in second innings still they only now require 36 runs to win the match. Sri Lanka would realize that though they played well in second innings and bowled well in second innings but each session for them is very important and losing couple of session initially in the test match can actually cost them the test match even if they play well in the end.
Sri Lanka collapsed from 5/291 to 359 all out. They lost 5 of their last wickets for just 68 runs. They had the perfect chance of setting up a challenging target for England, but the lower order collapse destroyed those hopes. There is hardly any take-aways for Sri Lanka from this match, apart from the good knocks by Lahiru Thirimanne and Angelo Mathews. They need to do much better, if they want to beat England in the remaining matches.