.Joe Root specified an England document of 34 Test centuries as Sri Lanka were entrusted to a massive hunt to succeed the 2nd Exam at Lord's on Saturday.Root's 103, the superstar batter's second thousand of the match after he made 143 in the initial innings, took England to a second-innings total amount of 251 full blast on the 3rd day.That left behind Sri Lanka requiring 483 to even this three-Test set at 1-1 adhering to England's five-wicket gain at Old Trafford last week.Watch every ball of the England v Sri Lanka Examination set LIVE & exclusive to Fox Cricket, accessible on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your cost-free test today > Root was actually last man out after edging ahead of retired England opener Alastair Cook's score of 33 Test centuries.And having actually produced the quickest century of his 145-Test career, off only 111 balls, the 33-year-old Root after that held 2 catches in the beginning lapse just before bad light finished bet the day.Sri Lanka were 2-53 at stubs, needing to have 430 additional runs in an unexpected quest to end an operate of 6 successive Exam defeats by England.His 7th Exam hundred at God's provided Root main possession of the report for the most Examine centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had provided his fellow past England leaders Graham Gooch and also Michael Vaughan.It was actually additionally the first time Root had actually produced hundreds in both innings of an Exam, the Yorkshireman signing up with the West Indies' George Headley, Gooch and also Vaughan as the only cricketers to have actually achieved that accomplishment at Lord's." That was good fun," Origin told the BBC after the shut." It was actually clearly a good condition when you are actually far ahead in the game. Yet you wish to steer it onward and obtain it in to as sturdy a placement as possible." He included: "It doesn't imply you can not score runs if whatever isn't ideal and this is one thing I have found out. There are actually other methods you may be helpful, you can rotate the strike, obtain a few boundaries away and also it performs acquire much easier." Origin was actually taken advantage of through his daddy, Matt, as he returned to the canopy after the appearance of his innings." Incredibly happy and also good to discuss a minute with my daddy walking off the field," he said.Joe Root of England. Picture through Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesEngland resumed on 1-25, actually 256 runs ahead of time, after putting away Sri Lanka for 196 in reply to their first-innings 427. Ollie Pope, 2 certainly not out overnight, finished a jog of three single-figure credit ratings since prospering the damaged Ben Stokes as England leader at the start of this series.But Pope, that just before this fit had actually spoken about the challenges of harmonizing the responsibility of captaincy with his duty as a No. 3 batsman, gave his wicket away on 17. Asitha Fernando lost short and also Pope retreated, simply for his square lower to fly directly to Prabath Jayasuriya at deeper point.Harry Creek was actually lost on 9 when Nishan Madushka fell a regimen drawback observing a top-edged slog sweep left-arm content spinner Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya did dismiss Creek for 37, along with Madushka making indisputable at deep-seated mid-wicket, and also had Jamie Smith lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper skipped a sweep.The serene Origin, however, two times brushed up and after that reverse-swept Jayasuriya for 3 fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, new coming from his maiden excellent century of 118 in the initial innings, as well as Matthew Potts both fell in easy sequence, Origin-- at that point 88 certainly not out-- jeopardized losing companions prior to he arrived at 3 figures.But Olly Stone conducted firm, with a happy Origin heading to his hundred when he reduced Lahiru Kumara for a tenth 4 just before he holed out off the paceman.England's Joe Origin is taken advantage of through his father Matt. Image through Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is actually rather simply England's biggest, and it's absolutely right that he needs to possess this report, on his very own," Cook, that was England's leader in each of Root's initial 53 Tests, pointed out on commentary for the BBC's Examination Suit Exclusive." Take it in, Joe. Our team are actually enjoying a genius." I don't assume there is actually a batsman that I may keep in mind checking out action (that portions) the sense of destiny about racking up runs that Joe Origin emits. I called it when he was on about 6 today, that he was actually going to get one hundred. I recognize he resides in terrific kind, but it is actually simply a pleasure to view an expert, an artisan at work." That left behind Sri Lanka needing to have to bring in record of their own, along with the highest possible fourth-innings complete to succeed a suit in 147 years of Examination past history the West Indies' 7-418 against Australia at St John's in 2002/03. The matching record at Lord's is the West Indies' 1-344 against England in 1984. Although the floodlights got on, Pope released frontline content spinner Shoaib Bashir and Root's part-time off-breaks in a quote to quit the suit being stopped for bad light.But the peacemakers did allow England's quicks bowl as Atkinson possessed Madushka (13) edging to Origin before the injury-plagued Rock, in his initial Exam for 3 years, eliminated Pathum Nissanka (14) in comparable style.