First blood to England in ODI series after Will Jacks helps see off Sri Lanka

All-rounder takes five wickets after vital 46 not out Harry Brook top-scores with 67 in comfortable win Harry Brook had called on his ­England players to continue the “high-octane” cricket witnessed during their clean sweep in the Twenty20s but this latest victory over Sri Lanka in the first one-day international was more of a slow-burn affair.

Gone was the neck-arching carnage of the previous week and in its place, on a tired end-of-season surface, England were bowled out…