.Joe Root prepared an England record of 34 Exam centuries as Sri Lanka were actually entrusted to a massive chase to gain the second Test at Lord's on Saturday.Root's 103, the superstar batter's second dozens the suit after he created 143 in the initial innings, took England to a second-innings total amount of 251 full blast on the third day.That left Sri Lanka needing to have 483 to level this three-Test collection at 1-1 complying with England's five-wicket win at Old Trafford final week.Watch every sphere of the England v Sri Lanka Test set LIVE & exclusive to Fox Cricket, available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your complimentary test today > Root was final man out after edging ahead of retired England opener Alastair Prepare's score of 33 Test centuries.And having helped make the quickest century of his 145-Test career, off only 111 balls, the 33-year-old Origin then held pair of catches initially slip just before bad illumination ended bet the day.Sri Lanka were 2-53 at stubs, needing to have 430 additional operates in a not likely quest to end an operate of six succeeding Examination defeats by England.His seventh Test hundred at Lord's offered Root sole ownership of the document for the very most Evaluate centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had actually provided his fellow former England leaders Graham Gooch and Michael Vaughan.It was actually additionally the first time Root had actually produced hundreds in each innings of an Exam, the Yorkshireman joining the West Indies' George Headley, Gooch and Vaughan as the only cricketers to have accomplished that accomplishment at God's." That was actually really good fun," Origin informed the BBC after the shut." It was actually certainly a good condition when you are actually far in advance in the video game. But you want to steer it onward and get it in to as strong a position as achievable." He included: "It doesn't mean you can not score runs if every little thing isn't ideal and also this is one thing I have learned. There are actually other techniques you can be effective, you can spin the strike, obtain a couple of perimeters away and it does receive easier." Root was embraced through his daddy, Matt, as he went back to the pavilion after the appearance of his innings." Very pleased as well as nice to discuss a moment with my dad walking off the area," he said.Joe Origin of England. Image by Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesEngland resumed on 1-25, already 256 operates in advance, after putting away Sri Lanka for 196 in respond to their first-innings 427. Ollie Pope, 2 not out overnight, finished a jog of 3 single-figure ratings due to the fact that doing well the hurt Ben Stokes as England leader at the start of the series.But Pope, that before this fit had actually referred to the challenges of balancing the accountability of captaincy with his job as a No. 3 batsman, gave his wicket away on 17. Asitha Fernando went down short and Pope retreated, simply for his square lower to fly straight to Prabath Jayasuriya at deep-seated point.Harry Brook was actually dropped on 9 when Nishan Madushka fell a regimen drawback observing a top-edged slog sweep left-arm rewriter Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya carried out dismiss Creek for 37, with Madushka making indisputable at deeper mid-wicket, and possessed Jamie Smith lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper missed out on a sweep.The serene Origin, having said that, twice swept and afterwards reverse-swept Jayasuriya for three fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, new from his first excellent century of 118 in the 1st innings, as well as Matthew Potts both joined easy sequence, Root-- at that point 88 certainly not out-- ran the risk of losing partners just before he hit 3 figures.But Olly Stone had organization, along with a happy Origin heading to his hundred when he reduced Lahiru Kumara for a tenth 4 before he holed out off the paceman.England's Joe Root is actually welcomed by his daddy Matt. Photo through Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is very merely England's greatest, and it's absolutely right that he needs to possess this record, on his very own," Chef, who was actually England's leader in each of Origin's very first 53 Exams, pointed out on discourse for the BBC's Exam Match Special." Take it in, Joe. Our experts are actually seeing a genius." I do not presume there is actually a batsman that I can always remember checking out action (that portions) the feeling of inevitability concerning scoring operates that Joe Origin releases. I contacted it when he performed approximately 6 today, that he was actually going to obtain one hundred. I understand he resides in fantastic type, however it is actually just a pleasure to check out a professional, a craftsman at the workplace." That left Sri Lanka needing to have to bring in past history of their very own, along with the greatest fourth-innings tot to gain a match in 147 years of Test record the West Indies' 7-418 versus Australia at St John's in 2002/03. The corresponding record at God's is the West Indies' 1-344 versus England in 1984. Although the flood lamps performed, Pope deployed frontline spinner Shoaib Bashir as well as Origin's part-time off-breaks in a bid to cease the match being actually halted for negative light.But the peacemakers carried out allow England's quicks bowl as Atkinson had Madushka (13) bordering to Root just before the injury-plagued Stone, in his very first Exam for three years, got rid of Pathum Nissanka (14) in comparable manner.