"Morning fellas! Same question as yesterday, how's it looking out the window today?? " --- Morning Jono. To answer your question, here's Fidel: "Nice bright morning at Galle. We should be good for a prompt start."

While nearly all of the New Zealand batters took advantage of the Sri Lankan spinners' lacklustre showing, Tom Latham had a particularly good day, sweeping to his heart's content. Fidel ran the rule over Latham's sweep, and indeed the rest of New Zealand's batters' approach to playing spin, and feels that their's is a side that will no longer get bogged down on turning tracks.

Taking a brief look back over yesterday's action, it was far and away New Zealand's day as they dominated Sri Lanka's spinners, who themselves were uncharacteristically off colour. Sri Lanka's spin-bowling coach suggested that one reason for that could be rustiness, with the spinners just needing a bit of time to get back into the groove in Galle.

9.15am Hello and a very good morning once more, welcome to day three of this first Test between Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Early start today, with play set to get underway at 9.45am. It'll be Madushka and Shashwat bringing you all the action, with Fidel at the ground in Galle.

5:55pm That will be all from us for today. Madushka's report will be up shortly and that should help you recount everything that happened on day two. We will be back again tomorrow, nice and early, with play scheduled to start fifteen minutes prior at 9:45am local time. Until then, this is goodbye from Madushka, Raghav and myself. Take care!

5:50pm A tough, grueling day of Test cricket, which New Zealand will be happier about. They began by skittling Sri Lanka out early and their openers then gave them a good start, mustering a 62-run stand. Latham got to fifty, as did Williamson and that handed the visitors a sense of control. A quick two-wicket salvo, though, including the scalps of Ravindra and Williamson pegged the Kiwis back, only for Blundell and Mitchell to stand tall, like they have often done in months gone by. They now trail by just 50 runs and with Phillips and Santner still to come, will feel they can fashion a sizeable advantage come day three.

An indifferent day at the office for Sri Lanka. Their spinners struggled to find the right lines and lengths throughout. Dhananjaya de Silva was the most successful of the spinners, bagging a brace but the lack of consistency (and penetration) of Ramesh and Jayasuriya will have left the hosts with more than a furrowed brow. Their usage of pace also left a bit to be desired and the general feeling is that they will now have to play catch-up early tomorrow, hoping to trigger a collapse. 5:49pm The umpires are chatting to themselves and have asked the fourth umpire to bring out the light meter. Okay, looks like the players are indeed coming off now, and that will be stumps on day two.