England opener Phil Salt bats.
Left-arm spinner Dunith Wellalage takes the new ball from the other end. Buttler defends the first ball before he flicks the next for a single.
Salt breaks the shackles as he hammers the third ball over the short straight boundary at long-off for a six.
Salt pushes the fourth ball towards midwicket for one and Buttler takes one off the next followed by a dot ball.
Madushanka continues from the other end. Buttler clips the first ball off his pads for a couple of runs to midwicket before he is beaten two balls in a row, looking to drive full deliveries angled across him.
A cracking yorker from Madushanka which swings in the air before holdings its line to get past the outside edge as Buttler is beaten for the third ball in a row.
Buttler makes room and looks to drive the full delivery but gets it off the to end for a single as the fielder at slip fumbles.
England off to a watchful start with 16 coming from the first three overs.
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