Heavy rain on Friday forced the ICC Champions Trophy match between England and Sri Lanka to be carried into Saturday's reserve day.
Put in to bat by Sri Lanka captain Mavan Atapattu, England were 118 for three after 32 overs in their crucial Group D league match at the Rose Bowl in Southampton, with opener Marcus Trescothick batting on 64 and Andrew Flintoff on 21 when play was halted for the day.
Play will continue from where it was suspended.
The winner of the match will advance to the semi-finals, where they will take on Group A winner Australia in Birmingham on Tuesday.
England and Sri Lanka have two points each, both having beaten Zimbabwe in the earlier group matches.
But should rain wash out Saturday's play too, England will progress by virtue of a better run-rate of +3.04 as compared to Sri Lanka's +0.629.
England had a bad start, losing two wickets by the 13th over. First to go was Vikram Solanki. The right-hander got an inside edge to a delivery from Farveez Maharoof and was caught behind by wicketkeeper Sangakkara. He scored 18.
Skipper Michael Vaughan, who came in next, misread a delivery from left arm pacer Nuwan Zoysa as he moved across to play and looked behind to find his middle stump uprooted.
Andrew Strauss was the third wicket to fall, run-out to a good throw from Maharoof at third man. The wicketkeeper had the easiest of tasks of taking off the bails as the batsman came back for the second run.
Between the falling of wickets opener Marcus Trescothick was reprieved twice and lucky to be there on 64 when rain intervened.
First, on nine, he mistimed a leg glance but Zoysa at mid off dropped an easy catch off the bowling of Maharoof.
Then he got a faint outside edge to the keeper. Sangakkara went up shouting for the catch but with no backing from the bowler (Maharoof) or any other fielders, umpire Billy Bowden, who failed to pick the sound, was unmoved.
In fact Maharoof was unlucky, but did well to end up with one wicket for 19 runs from his ten overs.
Andrew Flintoff, who came to the crease at the fall of Strauss's wicket, was lucky to be there when rain stepped in. He was dropped on one by Mahela Jayawardene in first slip and then survived a stumping appeal as Sangakkara whipped off the bails after the batsman was beaten by leg spinner Upul Chandana. Television replays showed the batsman well in.