Alastair Cook hits 10,000 Test runs as England complete Sri Lanka win
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Updated 30/05/2016 at 21:50 GMT
England v Sri Lanka: Second Test, Chester-le-Street - England, 498-9 dec (Ali 155 no, Pradeep 4-107) and 80-1 (Cook 47, Siriwardana 1-37); Sri Lanka 101 (Mendis 35, Broad 4-40) and 475 (Chandimal 126, Anderson 5-58) – England win by nine wickets
England's Alastair Cook celebrates reaching 10,000 test runs
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Alastair Cook became the first Englishman to reach 10,000 test runs before leading his team to an emphatic nine-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the second test at Durham on Monday that wrapped up the series.
Cook scored 47 not out as England eased to their target of 79 after Dinesh Chandimal made a fine century to lift Sri Lanka to 475 in their second innings on the fourth day.
Having been bowled out for 101 first time round, however, the touring side only delayed the inevitable and England took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series with a day to spare.
"It's a very special moment," Cook told the presentation ceremony.
"The game is not about personal milestone...it's about winning games for England and scoring runs to do that.
"Second to that there are little milestones along the way and certainly it's been a little bit on my shoulders, I cannot lie, because everyone's been telling me how many I need to get there."
Sri Lanka had resumed on 309 for five and England's only success in the morning session was the dismissal of Milinda Siriwardana for 35, well caught by Alex Hales at third slip off James Anderson to end a sixth-wicket partnership of 92.
Anderson found the inside edge of Chandimal's bat when the right-hander was on 69 but wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow spilled a simple chance and the 26-year-old took full advantage, reaching his sixth test hundred with a thick outside edge for four off Chris Woakes.
He received excellent support from Rangana Herath in a seventh-wicket stand of 116, Herath making a breezy 61 before he was trapped lbw by Anderson.
Anderson bowled Shaminda Eranga for one to complete another five-wicket haul and Stuart Broad ended Chandimal's defiant knock on 126 with a clever slower ball that clipped the top of his off stump.
Suranga Lakmal was the last man out, skying a catch to Broad off Woakes.
Cook, needing five runs to get to 10,000, clipped Nuwan Pradeep to the mid-wicket boundary to reach the milestone before raising hit bat to all corners of a sparsely-populated ground.
Hales was bowled by spinner Milinda Siriwardana for 11 but Cook calmly completed the job with Nick Compton who finished unbeaten on 22 as he battles to retain his place at number three in the order.
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