.Joe Root specified an England document of 34 Exam centuries as Sri Lanka were left with a large hunt to win the 2nd Exam 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 overall of 251 fully on the 3rd day.That left Sri Lanka needing 483 to even this three-Test collection at 1-1 observing England's five-wicket gain at Old Trafford last week.Watch every round of the England v Sri Lanka Examination set LIVE & exclusive to Fox Cricket, accessible on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your cost-free trial today > Root was last man out after edging in advance of retired England opener Alastair Cook's mark of 33 Exam centuries.And having actually created the quickest century of his 145-Test profession, off simply 111 balls, the 33-year-old Root then kept 2 catches in the beginning lapse before bad illumination finished bet the day.Sri Lanka were actually 2-53 at stubs, needing to have 430 additional operates in an unexpected pursuit to end a run of six succeeding Test defeats through England.His 7th Examination hundred at God's provided Root exclusive things of the report for the very most Examine centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had shown to his fellow past England captains Graham Gooch and also Michael Vaughan.It was actually additionally the first time Root had actually helped make hundreds in each innings of a Test, the Yorkshireman joining the West Indies' George Headley, Gooch and also Vaughan as the only cricketers to have actually accomplished that task at God's." That was actually really good exciting," Origin informed the BBC after the shut." It was actually obviously a good condition when you are much ahead of time in the game. Yet you want to drive it ahead and obtain it into as strong a placement as feasible." He added: "It does not indicate you can't score runs if everything isn't excellent and also this is actually one thing I have actually discovered. There are other ways you could be reliable, you can turn the strike, receive a couple of borders away as well as it carries out receive simpler." Origin was actually embraced by his dad, Matt, as he came back to the pavilion after the surface of his innings." Really proud and wonderful to discuss a minute with my papa walking off the field," he said.Joe Root of England. Picture by Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesEngland resumed on 1-25, actually 256 operates ahead, after putting away Sri Lanka for 196 in respond to their first-innings 427. Ollie Pope, 2 not out overnight, ended a jog of 3 single-figure scores since prospering the harmed Ben Stokes as England leader at the start of the series.But Pope, who prior to this match had actually mentioned the challenges of balancing the task of captaincy with his part as a No. 3 batsman, provided his arch away on 17. Asitha Fernando went down short as well as Pope backed away, merely for his straight slash to fly right to Prabath Jayasuriya at deeper point.Harry Creek was lost on 9 when Nishan Madushka went down a routine drawback complying with a top-edged slog sweep left-arm rewriter Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya did dismiss Creek for 37, along with Madushka creating no mistake at deeper mid-wicket, and possessed Jamie Smith lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper missed out on a sweep.The calm Root, nevertheless, two times swept and then reverse-swept Jayasuriya for three fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, clean coming from his initial first-rate century of 118 in the 1st innings, and also Matthew Potts both fell in fast succession, Origin-- at that point 88 not out-- risked losing partners just before he reached three figures.But Olly Stone conducted organization, along with an elated Root mosting likely to his hundred when he reduced Lahiru Kumara for a tenth four before he holed out off the paceman.England's Joe Root is actually welcomed through his daddy Matt. Photograph by Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is actually quite just England's ultimate, as well as it is actually dead-on that he must have this record, on his personal," Chef, who was England's leader in each of Origin's very first 53 Exams, claimed on discourse for the BBC's Examination Match Unique." Take it in, Joe. Our experts are actually enjoying a wizard." I do not think there is actually a batsman that I may keep in mind checking out play (who reveals) the sense of destiny regarding scoring runs that Joe Origin releases. I phoned it when he was on about 6 today, that he was actually going to acquire 100. I understand he's in excellent kind, but it is actually simply an enjoyment to see a professional, a specialist at the workplace." That left behind Sri Lanka needing to make past of their own, with the highest possible fourth-innings tot to win a match in 147 years of Test history the West Indies' 7-418 against Australia at Street John's in 2002/03. The matching record at God's is the West Indies' 1-344 against England in 1984. Although the flood lamps performed, Pope released frontline rewriter Shoaib Bashir as well as Origin's part-time off-breaks in a proposal to quit the match being actually halted for negative light.But the umpires carried out allow England's quicks bowl as Atkinson possessed Madushka (13) outlining to Origin prior to the injury-plagued Rock, in his initial Exam for three years, took out Pathum Nissanka (14) in similar style.