Early joy for England attack

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The veteran opener became the most capped player in one-day history when he walked out at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, passing Sachin Tendulkar, but perished to Sajid Mahmood as Sri Lanka reached 103 for two after 25 overs.

Jayasuriya was ominously set when he chopped into his stumps for 25 and fellow left-hander Kumar Sangakkara followed him to the pavillion when he somehow contrived to slice a wide slower ball straight to Paul Collingwood at point.

Jayasuriya highlighted his fine current form with four sweetly-timed boundaries and a six, getting off the mark first ball with a leg-glance for four off Mahmood and also crashing the same bowler to the rope at deep point.

Having opted to bowl first on a mottled surface, England captain Michael Vaughan might have hoped for at least one more breakthrough with the new ball.

But England's attack did restrict the run rate with James Anderson regularly beating the bat in a disciplined initial spell.

It took the sedate Upul Tharanga a dozen deliveries to get off the mark and he failed to hit a single four throughout the power-play periods.

Sangakkara twice pierced the field with extra-cover drives to the boundary off Andrew Flintoff but then succumbed to a soft dismissal as Mahmood doubled his wicket haul.