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For the first time in the country's history, Sri Lanka's presidential election has gone into a second round of counting after no single candidate won more than 50% of the vote. The election commission will now count voters' second and third choices for president - people were asked to mark up to three candidates in order of preference during the election. The first round, which saw the counting of people's primary choice of candidate, had Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a leftist politician in the lead with 42.31%.   Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa  is in second place with 32.76%. In a press conference, the election commission said that all other candidates apart from Dissanayake and Premadasa have been eliminated The eliminated candidates' ballots will now be checked to see if secondary or third preferential votes were given to the two frontrunners. To be declared the winner, Sri Lanka's election laws say that a candidate must win 50% plus a single vote. The ele...

  Earlier, O'Rourke completed his five-for as Sri Lanka folded for 305 in their first innings New Zealand  255 for 4 (Latham 70, Williamson 55, Dhananjaya 2-31) trail  Sri Lanka  305 (Kamindu 114, Kusal 50, O'Rourke 5-55) by 50 runs Partnerships were the name of the game as New Zealand strung together several of significance to come within 50 runs of Sri Lanka's first-innings total of 305 at stumps on day two in Galle. There were breezy fifties from  Tom Latham  and  Kane Williamson , and  Rachin Ravindra  also put forward an aggressive cameo. By the time an extended final session ended 15 minutes early due to bad light, there were more names on that list, as  Daryl Mitchell  and  Tom Blundell   had put together an unbeaten stand of 59 off 105. Theirs was the fourth 50-plus stand of the innings on a day that belonged almost in totality to the visitors. All this happened despite a rain-curtailed morning session during whi...