England victory bid held up by rain at Lord's

LONDON (Reuters) - England's hopes of a victory push on the final day of the third test against Sri Lanka were frustrated as rain prevented any play before lunch was taken early on Monday.

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Sri Lanka need an unlikely 362 to win while England require 10 wickets to wrap up a 3-0 series victory.

With rain easing at Lord's, lunch was taken at 1230 local time. Sri Lanka had reached 32-0 on Sunday when 43 overs were lost to heavy showers.

England made 416 in their first innings, Jonny Bairstow top-scoring with 167 not out, and bowled Sri Lanka out for 288.

The hosts declared their second innings on 233-7.

(Reporting by Martyn Herman, editing by Pritha Sarkar)