St Sangakkara b Jayawardene

When Fawad Alam bowled with his cap on backwards during the recent series between Pakistan and Australia, it caused a bit of a stir. Joe Root is not quite as part-time as Alam but, when called upon to chip in with a few overs here, he promptly came in off a few steps and delivered the ball with his head still covered, peak pointing down the wicket. He then took his cap off and gave it to the umpire but not before a few comparisons with Geoffrey Boycott had been made. Proof, if any were needed, that cricket can be a strange game.

Chris Woakes returned to bowl during the batting Powerplay and targeted Dinesh Chandimal with a familiar short-pitched attack. A wild hack resulted in a top edge that went soaring in the direction of third man and Woakes immediately threw his hands up in celebration. He might have hesitated had he realised who the fielder running in was, though. Harry Gurney is not the man you would pick to catch for your life and on this occasion he didn't even get close, there was no attempt at a dive and the ball then spun past him anyway, nearly going for four. Woakes' hands dropped to his sides and on the replay he could be seen exclaiming: "Harry!"

When you have hit 13,158 runs in each other's company, across formats, perhaps it is inevitable that bad habits are shared, along with the good times. Batting for the final time in ODIs at home, Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara fell mimicking mistakes more often seen at the opposite end of their bromance. Jayawardene had batted imperiously for his 28, but sent a leg-side half-tracker down the gullet of fine leg. Sangakkara had collected his 33 with typical care, but in his efforts to gently manoeuvre the field, chipped an offspinner straight to short midwicket.

Colombo had wanted to see Sangakkara and Jayawardene rack up some milestones with the bat, but as neither managed to get past the thirties, it fell to the other senior batsman, Tillakaratne Dilshan, to give the full house its fill. He was most emphatic when celebrating his ton. Completing the two that took him to triple-figures, Dilshan dropped his bat by the wicketkeeper, his helmet at short third man, leapt, punched the air, and blew two kisses to the same stand that houses the dressing room. He was more reserved, but no less joyful when celebrating his wickets, embarking on a skip around one side of the pitch after his second scalp.

Sangakkara has been involved in more ODI dismissals - 480 - than any other wicketkeeper in history. Jayawardene is by a huge margin the most prolific catch-taker (among non-wicketkeepers) in 50-over cricket, having successfully pouched 215 off the blade. But never before have the two combined on any scorecard. When Angelo Mathews tossed Jayawardene the ball with one England wicket remaining, the 25,000-strong crowd began baying for their perfect finish. Almost by their force of will, it came together. James Tredwell walked past a turning offspinner in Jayawardene's second over, and Sangakkara whipped off the bails, as the stadium erupted, and the team broke out in big grins.