.Joe Root specified an England report of 34 Test centuries as Sri Lanka were actually left with a massive pursuit to win the second Examination at Lord's on Saturday.Root's 103, the celebrity batter's 2nd thousand of the match after he created 143 in the first innings, took England to a second-innings total amount of 251 all out on the 3rd day.That left Sri Lanka needing 483 to level this three-Test series at 1-1 observing England's five-wicket succeed at Old Trafford last week.Watch every round of the England v Sri Lanka Exam series LIVE & special to Fox Cricket, readily available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free trial today > Origin was actually last guy out after edging in advance of retired England opener Alastair Cook's score of 33 Test centuries.And having helped make the quickest century of his 145-Test career, off simply 111 receptions, the 33-year-old Root then held two catches in the beginning slip before poor light finished play for the day.Sri Lanka were 2-53 at stubs, requiring 430 additional operates in an unexpected quest to finish a run of 6 successive Examination beats through England.His 7th Examination hundred at Lord's offered Origin main ownership of the report for the very most Evaluate centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had actually shared with his fellow former England leaders Graham Gooch as well as Michael Vaughan.It was actually additionally the very first time Root had created hundreds in each innings of a Test, the Yorkshireman joining the West Indies' George Headley, Gooch and Vaughan as the only cricketers to have actually attained that feat at Lord's." That was actually excellent fun," Origin said to the BBC after the shut." It was actually undoubtedly a great circumstance when you are actually far in advance in the activity. Yet you want to drive it forward and acquire it into as sturdy a setting as possible." He included: "It doesn't indicate you can't score runs if every little thing isn't excellent and also this is one thing I have actually learned. There are actually various other methods you may be successful, you can spin the strike, receive a couple of perimeters away as well as it carries out acquire much easier." Root was accepted through his father, Matt, as he came back to the canopy after the finish of his innings." Really glad and pleasant to discuss a minute along with my dad strolling off the field," he said.Joe Root of England. Image by Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesEngland resumed on 1-25, currently 256 operates ahead of time, after dismissing Sri Lanka for 196 in reply to their first-innings 427. Ollie Pope, 2 not out overnight, finished a run of 3 single-figure credit ratings because being successful the damaged Ben Stokes as England captain at the start of this particular series.But Pope, who before this match had referred to the difficulties of stabilizing the task of captaincy with his duty as a No. 3 batsman, offered his opening away on 17. Asitha Fernando lost short as well as Pope retreated, just for his straight cut down to take flight straight to Prabath Jayasuriya at deep-seated point.Harry Brook was dropped on 9 when Nishan Madushka dropped a regimen drawback adhering to a top-edged slog sweep left-arm content spinner Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya did put away Brook for 37, along with Madushka making no mistake at deeper mid-wicket, and also had Jamie Smith lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper missed a sweep.The tranquil Origin, however, two times swept and then reverse-swept Jayasuriya for 3 fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, fresh coming from his first top-notch century of 118 in the initial innings, and also Matthew Potts both fell in simple progression, Root-- after that 88 certainly not out-- risked losing companions prior to he reached three figures.But Olly Stone conducted firm, along with a happy Root going to his hundred when he cut Lahiru Kumara for a tenth four just before he holed out off the paceman.England's Joe Origin is actually embraced through his dad Matt. Image by Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is actually very just England's best, and it's absolutely right that he needs to have this record, on his personal," Chef, that was England's leader in each of Origin's first 53 Exams, claimed on discourse for the BBC's Test Suit Special." Take it in, Joe. We are enjoying a wizard." I don't presume there is actually a batsman that I can easily keep in mind viewing play (that allotments) the sense of inevitability concerning racking up operates that Joe Root emits. I phoned it when he was on about 6 today, that he was actually going to get one hundred. I understand he resides in terrific kind, yet it is actually only an enjoyment to check out a master, an artisan at the workplace." That left behind Sri Lanka needing to have to make background of their own, with the highest fourth-innings complete to succeed a match in 147 years of Exam past the West Indies' 7-418 against Australia at Street John's in 2002/03. The matching record at God's is actually the West Indies' 1-344 versus England in 1984. Although the floodlights got on, Pope deployed frontline article spinner Shoaib Bashir as well as Origin's part-time off-breaks in a bid to quit the suit being actually halted for negative light.But the umpires carried out allow England's quicks bowl as Atkinson had Madushka (13) edging to Origin just before the injury-plagued Stone, in his very first Test for three years, took out Pathum Nissanka (14) in comparable fashion.