.Joe Origin specified an England record of 34 Exam centuries as Sri Lanka were left with a colossal hunt to win the 2nd Test at God's on Saturday.Root's 103, the celebrity batter's 2nd thousand of the suit after he made 143 in the first innings, took England to a second-innings total amount of 251 fully on the 3rd day.That left Sri Lanka requiring 483 to level this three-Test collection at 1-1 adhering to England's five-wicket win at Old Trafford last week.Watch every ball of the England v Sri Lanka Exam series LIVE & unique to Fox Cricket, offered on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free of cost test today > Root was actually last guy out after edging in advance of retired England opener Alastair Cook's mark of thirty three Test centuries.And having actually produced the quickest century of his 145-Test job, off only 111 receptions, the 33-year-old Root then kept two catches initially lapse prior to poor illumination ended play for the day.Sri Lanka were 2-53 at stubs, requiring 430 even more runs in an improbable pursuit to finish a run of six succeeding Exam defeats through England.His 7th Test hundred at Lord's offered Origin only things of the file for the very most Check centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had actually provided his fellow past England leaders Graham Gooch and also Michael Vaughan.It was likewise the very first time Origin had actually created hundreds in both innings of an Examination, the Yorkshireman joining the West Indies' George Headley, Gooch as well as Vaughan as the only cricketers to have attained that task at Lord's." That was good fun," Root told the BBC after the shut." It was clearly a good scenario when you are far ahead of time in the game. Yet you intend to drive it onward as well as receive it into as sturdy a placement as achievable." He added: "It does not mean you can't rack up runs if everything isn't excellent and also this is actually something I have discovered. There are actually other means you could be effective, you may spin the strike, get a couple of boundaries away as well as it performs obtain easier." Root was actually taken advantage of through his daddy, Matt, as he went back to the pavilion after the appearance of his innings." Very pleased as well as wonderful to share a minute along with my dad walking off the area," he said.Joe Root of England. Image by Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesEngland resumed on 1-25, actually 256 runs ahead of time, after dismissing Sri Lanka for 196 in reply to their first-innings 427. Ollie Pope, 2 not out overnight, ended a run of three single-figure credit ratings since prospering the damaged Ben Stokes as England leader at the beginning of this particular series.But Pope, that before this match had referred to the difficulties of harmonizing the responsibility of captaincy along with his function as a No. 3 batsman, offered his opening away on 17. Asitha Fernando lost small and also Pope pulled back, simply for his straight slash to take flight right to Prabath Jayasuriya at deep point.Harry Creek was dropped on 9 when Nishan Madushka went down a routine catch following a top-edged slog sweep off left-arm content spinner Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya carried out dismiss Brook for 37, along with Madushka creating no mistake at deeper mid-wicket, and had Jamie Smith lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper missed out on a sweep.The peaceful Root, nevertheless, twice swept and then reverse-swept Jayasuriya for 3 fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, clean coming from his first superior century of 118 in the first innings, as well as Matthew Potts both fell in easy sequence, Root-- then 88 certainly not out-- risked losing partners prior to he arrived at 3 figures.But Olly Stone had agency, along with a happy Root visiting his hundred when he cut Lahiru Kumara for a tenth four prior to he holed out off the paceman.England's Joe Root is actually welcomed through his daddy Matt. Image through Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is very simply England's ultimate, and also it's dead-on that he ought to have this report, on his own," Prepare, who was actually England's captain in each of Root's very first 53 Tests, stated on discourse for the BBC's Test Suit Exclusive." Take it in, Joe. Our experts are actually watching a brilliant." I do not assume there's a batsman that I may always remember viewing action (who allotments) the sense of certainty about racking up operates that Joe Root produces. I contacted it when he was on about 6 today, that he was actually going to acquire one hundred. I know he's in terrific kind, yet it is actually only a satisfaction to enjoy a professional, an artisan at the workplace." That left behind Sri Lanka needing to have to bring in record of their own, with the highest fourth-innings complete to succeed a match in 147 years of Examination past history the West Indies' 7-418 against Australia at St John's in 2002/03. The equivalent record at Lord's is the West Indies' 1-344 against England in 1984. Although the floodlights got on, Pope deployed frontline spinner Shoaib Bashir and also Root's part time off-breaks in a bid to quit the suit being halted for bad light.But the peacemakers carried out permit England's quicks bowl as Atkinson had Madushka (13) outlining to Origin prior to the injury-plagued Stone, in his 1st Examination for 3 years, eliminated Pathum Nissanka (14) in comparable manner.