The middle-order built on fifties from Dimuth Karunaratne and Dinesh Chandimal, to take Sri Lanka's lead past 200

Gus Atkinson to Kusal Mendis, FOUR! Sri Lanka are playing with freedom here! Gus Atkinson bangs this into the pitch and outside off, Kusal Mendis accepts the width on offer and slashes hard at it, gets a thick outside edge that flies over gully for a boundary.

No chance of stopping that as this races away. Sri Lanka vs New Zealand Live Score: FOUR! Nice and fine! That's easy for Karunaratne. On the pads. Dimuth clips it down towards fine leg and it races away to the fence.

The Sri Lanka vs New Zealand first Test in Galle had a first since 2008 as the match will have a rest day on September 21, Saturday. Here's the reason why the teams will take a rest on Saturday.

Get live score updates of Sri Lanka vs New Zealand 1st Test Day 4. Follow the latest action, scorecard, and streaming info as Sri Lanka and New Zealand battle in the ongoing Test match.

Right then, that is it from an entertaining Day 3 of this Test match where Sri Lanka find themselves in a good position and New Zealand have a lot to do to turn things around. Well, if you are not aware,