.Joe Root specified an England report of 34 Test centuries as Sri Lanka were actually left with a colossal pursuit to win the 2nd Exam at Lord's on Saturday.Root's 103, the superstar batter's 2nd thousand of the match after he made 143 in the 1st innings, took England to a second-innings total of 251 full blast on the 3rd day.That left Sri Lanka needing 483 to level this three-Test set at 1-1 complying with England's five-wicket gain at Old Trafford final week.Watch every round of the England v Sri Lanka Examination collection LIVE & exclusive to Fox Cricket, accessible on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free of charge test today > Root was actually last man out after edging before retired England opener Alastair Prepare's score of thirty three Test centuries.And having produced the quickest century of his 145-Test career, off just 111 receptions, the 33-year-old Origin at that point kept pair of catches at first slip before negative illumination ended play for the day.Sri Lanka were actually 2-53 at stubs, needing to have 430 more operates in an unexpected quest to finish an operate of 6 successive Test beats through England.His 7th Test hundred at Lord's offered Root exclusive possession of the report for the very most Check centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had shown his fellow previous England leaders Graham Gooch as well as Michael Vaughan.It was also the first time Origin had helped make hundreds in each innings of an Exam, the Yorkshireman signing up with the West Indies' George Headley, Gooch and also Vaughan as the only cricketers to have achieved that feat at Lord's." That was actually great enjoyable," Root said to the BBC after the close." It was actually clearly a wonderful condition when you are actually much ahead of time in the activity. Yet you intend to drive it onward as well as get it in to as solid a posture as possible." He included: "It does not suggest you can not score operates if every little thing isn't perfect and also this is actually one thing I have actually discovered. There are actually other ways you can be efficient, you can spin the strike, acquire a few borders away as well as it carries out receive simpler." Root was welcomed by his father, Matt, as he returned to the canopy after the coating of his innings." Very glad and also great to discuss a moment with my father strolling off the field," he said.Joe Origin of England. Photograph by Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesEngland resumed on 1-25, already 256 operates ahead, after putting away Sri Lanka for 196 in respond to their first-innings 427. Ollie Pope, 2 not out overnight, finished a jog of three single-figure credit ratings since doing well the injured Ben Stokes as England leader at the beginning of this particular series.But Pope, who before this match had actually spoken about the challenges of balancing the task of captaincy with his part as a No. 3 batsman, gave his arch away on 17. Asitha Fernando fell small as well as Pope pulled back, merely for his straight slash to pilot right to Prabath Jayasuriya at deep point.Harry Brook was gone down on 9 when Nishan Madushka dropped a regular drawback following a top-edged slog sweep left-arm content spinner Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya performed dismiss Creek for 37, along with Madushka making no mistake at deep mid-wicket, and also possessed Jamie Smith lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper missed a sweep.The tranquil Origin, having said that, twice brushed up and then reverse-swept Jayasuriya for 3 fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, fresh coming from his initial first-rate century of 118 in the 1st innings, as well as Matthew Potts both joined simple progression, Root-- at that point 88 not out-- ran the risk of lacking partners prior to he arrived at 3 figures.But Olly Rock hosted firm, along with a happy Origin heading to his hundred when he cut Lahiru Kumara for a tenth four before he holed out off the paceman.England's Joe Root is taken advantage of by his father Matt. Picture through Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is actually fairly merely England's greatest, and it is actually absolutely right that he ought to possess this report, on his very own," Chef, that was actually England's captain in each of Root's first 53 Examinations, pointed out on discourse for the BBC's Test Suit Exclusive." Take it in, Joe. We are checking out a genius." I don't believe there is actually a batsman that I can don't forget seeing action (who reveals) the sense of certainty regarding racking up operates that Joe Root releases. I called it when he was on around 6 today, that he was going to receive one hundred. I recognize he remains in terrific form, however it's merely a satisfaction to enjoy an expert, a specialist at work." That left Sri Lanka needing to have to create history of their very own, along with the best fourth-innings total to win a match in 147 years of Examination past the West Indies' 7-418 versus Australia at Street John's in 2002/03. The matching file at Lord's is actually the West Indies' 1-344 versus England in 1984. Although the floodlights were on, Pope released frontline rewriter Shoaib Bashir and Origin's part-time off-breaks in an offer to stop the suit being actually stopped for poor light.But the umpires performed let England's quicks bowl as Atkinson had Madushka (thirteen) bordering to Root prior to the injury-plagued Stone, in his very first Examination for three years, got rid of Pathum Nissanka (14) in similar style.