Hoggard is the 10th English bowler to pass 200 Test wickets

Upul Tharanga and Kumar Sangakkara hit half centuries on day three of the first Test at Lord's but England had their sights on victory by stumps.

Sangakkara (65) added 109 with Tharanga (52) and 69 with Mahela Jayawardene but Monty Panesar broke both partnerships.

Farveez Maharoof joined Jayawardene to take them to stumps at 183-3, with 176 more needed to avoid an innings loss.

England bowled Sri Lanka out for 192 in the morning, Matthew Hoggard taking his career Test wicket haul to 201.

TEST WICKETS FOR ENGLAND IT Botham 383 wkts at 28.40 (102 Tests) RGD Willis 325 at 25.20 (90) FS Trueman 307 at 21.57 (67) DL Underwood 297 at 25.83 (86) JB Statham 252 at 24.84 (70) AV Bedser 236 at 24.89 (51) AR Caddick 234 at 29.91 (62) D Gough 229 at 28.39 (58) JA Snow 202 at 26.66 (49) MJ Hoggard 202 at 28.80 (52)

Hoggard, the 10th English bowler to pass the 200 mark, finished with figures of 4-27 in the first innings.

And he put on a superb display of seam and swing at the start of the second, forcing opener Jehan Mubarak to play onto his stumps with an edge onto his pads.

The rest of the pace attack also impressed, although youngsters Sajid Mahmood and Liam Plunkett were both a little inconsistent in short spells.

But the second-wicket pair hung in until the shine went off the new ball.

And Jayawardene picked up where he had left off in the morning session, when he was the eighth man out for 61.

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Finally brought on in the 28th over, Panesar went until the 40th before he took his first Test wicket on English soil, Tharanga edging a delivery that kept low

And captain Andrew Flintoff turned to him again to have Sangakkara caught behind in similar fashion just after he had begun to build on a patient half-century.

England had encountered small pockets of resistance during the morning, especially in a shared a stand of 61 for the ninth wicket between Chaminda Vaas and Nuwan Kulasekara.

But they had asserted their dominance by the lunch break and did not hesitate to ask Sri Lanka to bat again, even though the forecast poor weather failed to materialise.

Sangakkara was dismissed just as he was finding his feet

Sri Lanka were 91-6 overnight and it was 40 minutes before the first breakthrough, Hoggard striking with his third ball after being switched to the Nursery End.

He made a diving return catch to his left as Farveez Maharoof got a leading edge to a delivery that moved down the hill to depart for 22.

England skipper Flintoff then set up his opposite number Jayawardene with slight movement on a short length to have him caught behind.

Vaas made sure his side would at least reach lunch before being made to bat again, capitalising on drops by slip fielders Alastair Cook on nine and Andrew Strauss on 13.