But the 25-year-old then pulled Suranga Lakmal behind square for four before completing a 200-ball century with a punched boundary down the ground and following that with a blazing shot to the midwicket fence. Cricket England’s Matt Prior had a battling average of 40.18 for his country. (Adam Davy/PA). Download Images Watch Videos online. Read about Ben Foakes's Profile, Latest News, Articles, Career updates only on ESPNcricinfo.com. Scores. Ben Foakes on social. James Anderson made England's first breakthrough on Wednesday, Moeen Ali took 4-66 as Sri Lanka were bundled out for 203, Carra: Title race blown open; Souness: It was an assault, Jose: West Ham lucky, Moyes found 'new Fellaini', Hits & misses: Same old Spurs, Man Utd finally start, Cavani trains with Man Utd for first time, Pep defends Aguero over Massey-Ellis incident, Pep: Aguero must earn City contract extension, Van Dijk blow leaves Liverpool stepping into unknown, Ben Foakes scores debut century before England skittle Sri Lanka, We would like your feedback, please fill in our survey. Thorpe made 100 Test appearances for England, scoring 6744 runs with a high of 200 not out. Cook played for England for 12 years and in 161 Test matches – 158 of themconsecutive – with an average of 45.35. Prior became one of four batsman to score a century in the first innings of theTest series against the West Indies, when he scored 126 not out on his debut. We were treated to four absolute stunners from Tom Moores, Lewis McManus and Ben Foakes this round 24 April 2018. Ben Foakes completed a debut century before England dismissed Sri Lanka for 203 and extended their lead to 177 on day two of the first Test in Galle. Alastair Cook became England’s all-time leading run scorer. Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi’s son Mansoor (pictured) also played cricket for India. Menu ESPN. Ian Ward is joined by Matt Prior to get his thoughts on Ben Foakes' debut 100 and where he can go from here. The wicketkeeper-batsman resumed his innings at the start of the day on 87 and found the boundary in the sixth over of the day to reach three figures. Sections, Surrey’s Ben Foakes scored 107 on his England debut in Sri Lanka. But he was dropped after the second Test in Melbourne after scoring just 15 and five and did not play again in the series. Foakes (107) became the second England wicketkeeper to hit a ton in his first Test, after Matt Prior against Windies at Lord's in 2007, as the tourists scored 342 having begun the day on 321-8, Sri Lanka off-spinner Dilruwan Perera (5-75) taking a seventh Test five-for. Rashid finally had his man stumped by Foakes after Chandimal danced down the pitch, though Mathews sealed his 30th Test fifty shortly before tea, which was taken a few minutes early after Burns was struck on the head at short leg from a Niroshan Dickwella sweep. (Anthony Devlin/PA). Foakes had kept impeccably in Sri Lanka and averaged 69.25 with the bat, including making 107 on Test debut in Galle to guiding England to a competitive total. (Steven Pason/PA). Ali claimed the next two wickets as well, Dickwella (28) chipping a tossed-up ball to a leaping Jos Buttler at short cover and Akila Dananjaya (0) feathering through to Foakes, who took a fine grab up close. Sri Lanka's innings was in tatters when Kaushal Silva was pinned lbw by a Sam Curran in-swinger, Kusal Mendis edged Leach to Ben Stokes in the slip cordon and Dhananjaya de Silva was bowled on the sweep by Ali. Auto refresh is Enabled (This can be changed from the Settings page) Alert. He made his highest Test score of 170 in 1886 and scored 1098 runs in 22 Tests for England. Watch day three of the first Test between England and Sri Lanka live on Sky Sports Cricket from 4.15am on Thursday. Alert. The wicketkeeper-batsman scored his runs at an impressive strike rate of98.43. Ben Foakes became the 20th Englishman to score a century on debut against Sri Lanka. Share your feedback/suggestion Two years later was in the side which lost at the same ground to mark the birth of the Ashes. Foakes was England's leading run-scorer at the 2012 U-19 World Cup and was subsequently selected for the England Lions' limited-overs tour of Australia in 2012-13 which turned disastrous for the Lions. However, Sri Lanka folded again once Chandimal and Mathews were ousted either side of tea with Moeen Ali bagging 4-66 before Keaton Jennings (26no) and Rory Burns (11no) marshalled England to 38-0 by stumps. Leach's subsequent dismissal of Dilruwan (21), Buttler again the catcher, meant Sri Lanka had lost three wickets for four runs and fell to 175-9. Ben Foakes completed a debut century before England dismissed Sri Lanka for 203 and extended their lead to 177 on day two of the first Test in Galle. SCORECARD | COMMENTARY. Find Foakes's Records, Biography, Centuries, Runs, wickets. The Belfast Telegraph is a member of IPSO and subscribes to its Editors' Code of Practice Latest News. A fruitful tour meant he was fasttracked into the List A side.