Unchanged England Chose to Bowl in Decider

Leeds: England have won the toss and chose to bowl against Sri Lanka in 2nd and final Tesst at Headingley, Leeds on Friday.

England unchanged.

For Sri Lanka -- Dinesh Chandimal replaces the injured Prasanna Jayawardene behind the stumps, and Dhammika Prasad in for Nuwan Kulasekara.

Teams:

England: 1 Alastair Cook (Capt), 2 Sam Robson, 3 Gary Ballance, 4 Ian Bell, 5 Joe Root, 6 Moeen Ali, 7 Matt Prior (wk), 8 Chris Jordan, 9 Stuart Broad, 10 Liam Plunkett, 11 James Anderson

Sri Lanka: 1 Kaushal Silva, 2 Dimuth Karunaratne, 3 Kumar Sangakkara, 4 Mahela Jayawardene, 5 Lahiru Thirimanne, 6 Angelo Mathews (Capt.), 7 Dinesh Chandimal (wk), 8 Dhammika Prasad, 9 Rangana Herath, 10 Shaminda Eranga, 11 Nuwan Pradeep

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