Pakistan 218 all out (Babar 119, Jayasuriya 5-82) trail Sri Lanka 222 by four runs

It didn't take long after tea for Babar to get to his hundred. He got a full toss from Theekshana second ball, which he whipped powerfully wide of mid-on to get to 99. Next ball, he inside-edges one that dribbled away to leg, and the batters scampered through. While Naseem was overjoyed, Babar's own celebration was measured.

Babar struck two more boundaries before getting out - a six over wide long-on off Jayasuriya, and a four through square leg off the same bowler - both with the field well back. Eventually, he missed a legside flick against Theekshana and was struck on the front pad in front of middle and off, with the ball shown to be crashing into the stumps on review.

Earlier, Jayasuriya had terrorised Pakistan's middle order to put their innings into disarray. He had Azhar Ali dropped first ball, but had him lbw two balls later, in the first over of the morning. He bowled unchanged from the fort end through the early session, removing debutant Agha Salman, then dismissing Mohammad Nawaz and Shaheen Shah Afridi off successive deliveries.

Finding rapid turn and substantial bounce off the straight, Jayasuriya had batters playing and missing frequently, but what had made him truly deadly in the first session was the straight ball, which raised several lbw appeals. Ramesh Mendis took the only other wicket to fall in a five-wicket morning session, when he had Mohammad Rizwan caught behind down the legside.

After lunch, Yasir hung around with Babar for a bit, then Hasan Ali struck two sixes in a 21-ball 17. But the last-wicket stand changed the complexion of a match which Sri Lanka thought they were seizing.