England dismissed for 351

Prior (79) scored his second successive Test 50 before trying to slog-sweep Muttiah Muralitharan, who took the top-edged catch to finish with five for 116 - his 62nd five-wicket Test haul.

Paul Collingwood had earlier made 52, while Ryan Sidebottom contributed a valuable 17.

The debate over the use of technology in cricket also re-surfaced again.

Sidebottom was reprieved before lunch on the second day, hours after England captain Michael Vaughan called for television adjudication to be made on contentious decisions.

Technically, as the International Cricket Council playing regulations stand, Sidebottom should have been given out in the 20th over of the morning when Mahela Jayawardene claimed a catch at second slip off Dilhara Fernando.

A bouncer from Fernando hurried left-hander Sidebottom, the ball veered past the batsman's gloves, thudded into his shoulder and ballooned towards the slip cordon.

Jayawardene dived full length to grasp the chance and Australian umpire Daryl Harper conversed with colleague Aleem Dar.

Under the letter of the law the officials can only refer decisions if both are unsighted, and the subsequent move to ask third umpire Gamini Silva to determine whether it was a clean catch inferred Harper was confident the ball brushed the gloves on the way through.

Television pictures showed it had carried but the 'common sense' factor prevailed and Silva advised the on-field officials via walkie talkie that he thought the ball had hit only body and Sidebottom was given not out.