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Sri Lanka battle back after Bairstow's 167*

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Sri Lanka resumed with a real opportunity to turn the screw after six first-day wickets  Getty Images
Matt Prior rang the five-minute bell before the start of play ...  Getty Images
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... then settled in to watch from the England balcony  Getty Images
Jonny Bairstow quickly picked up where he had left off  Getty Images
... with Chris Woakes bedding in at the other end  PA Photos
Woakes went to fifty for the first time in Test cricket  PA Photos
... before Rangana Herath made Sri Lanka's first breakthrough  PA Photos
Woakes departed for a well-compiled 66  PA Photos
... but Bairstow reached lunch on a Test-best 156 not out  Getty Images
After lunch, Sir Garfield Sobers rang the Lord's bell in memory of Muhammad Ali  Getty Images
... while pictures of his visit to Lord's in 1966 were shown on the big screen  AFP
Suranga Lakmal removed Stuart Broad to a catch in the gully  Getty Images
... while Steven Finn chanced his arm in a brief stay, helping England to pass 400  Getty Images
Bairstow's 167 not out was the highest score by an England wicketkeeper in a home Test  Getty Images
However, Bairstow's stock dropped shortly after when he missed a straightforward edge off Dimuth Karunaratne  AFP
The bowler was Woakes, who was also luckless with a tight lbw appeal against Karunaratne  Getty Images
Kaushal Silva ticked over as he and Karunaratne reached tea with Sri Lanka steady on 62 for 0  Getty Images
England's bowlers had to find other ways to amuse themselves  PA Photos
Kaushal Silva made his third fifty in three innings at Lord's  Getty Images
Steven Finn broke the century opening stand when Dimuth Karunaratne was caught down the leg side  Getty Images
Kusal Mendis reached the close on 25 not out  Getty Images
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