.Joe Root specified an England report of 34 Exam centuries as Sri Lanka were left with a massive pursuit to win the second Test at God's on Saturday.Root's 103, the star batter's 2nd thousand of the suit after he made 143 in the 1st innings, took England to a second-innings overall of 251 full blast on the 3rd day.That left behind Sri Lanka requiring 483 to level this three-Test series at 1-1 following England's five-wicket succeed at Old Trafford final week.Watch every ball of the England v Sri Lanka Test series LIVE & unique to Fox Cricket, on call on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your complimentary trial today > Origin was last male out after edging ahead of retired England opener Alastair Prepare's score of 33 Exam centuries.And having actually helped make the quickest century of his 145-Test profession, off simply 111 receptions, the 33-year-old Origin after that kept pair of catches at first lapse just before bad lighting finished play for the day.Sri Lanka were actually 2-53 at stubs, needing 430 additional runs in an unexpected journey to finish a run of 6 subsequent Examination beats by England.His 7th Exam hundred at Lord's gave Root sole belongings of the file for the most Evaluate centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had shared with his fellow past England leaders Graham Gooch as well as Michael Vaughan.It was also the first time Root had made hundreds in each innings of an Examination, 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 great exciting," Origin informed the BBC after the close." It was certainly a wonderful situation when you are much ahead of time in the game. However you want to drive it ahead and also get it in to as solid a setting as achievable." He incorporated: "It does not imply you can't rack up operates if everything isn't perfect and also this is actually something I have actually discovered. There are other ways you may be reliable, you can revolve the strike, receive a couple of perimeters away as well as it performs acquire less complicated." Origin was actually taken advantage of through his father, Matt, as he came back to the structure after the surface of his innings." Extremely honored and also nice to discuss a second along with my daddy strolling off the area," he said.Joe Origin of England. Image through Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesEngland returned to on 1-25, currently 256 runs ahead of time, after putting away Sri Lanka for 196 in respond to their first-innings 427. Ollie Pope, 2 certainly not out overnight, ended a jog of three single-figure scores since being successful the injured Ben Stokes as England captain at the beginning of this particular series.But Pope, that before this suit had mentioned the difficulties of harmonizing the responsibility of captaincy with his part as a No. 3 batsman, offered his arch away on 17. Asitha Fernando fell small and also Pope retreated, only for his straight lower to pilot right to Prabath Jayasuriya at deep point.Harry Creek was fallen on 9 when Nishan Madushka lost a routine catch adhering to a top-edged slog sweep left-arm rewriter Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya did put away Brook for 37, with Madushka creating indisputable at deep-seated mid-wicket, and had Jamie Johnson lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper skipped a sweep.The serene Origin, having said that, two times swept and after that reverse-swept Jayasuriya for three fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, fresh from his maiden first-rate century of 118 in the 1st innings, as well as Matthew Potts both joined fast progression, Root-- at that point 88 certainly not out-- risked running out of partners just before he reached three figures.But Olly Stone conducted organization, along with a happy Root mosting likely to his hundred when he cut Lahiru Kumara for a tenth 4 just before he holed out off the paceman.England's Joe Origin is embraced through his dad Matt. Image by Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is actually pretty merely England's best, as well as it's absolutely right that he needs to have this record, on his own," Chef, who was actually England's leader in each of Root's 1st 53 Exams, pointed out on discourse for the BBC's Test Suit Unique." Take it in, Joe. Our experts are watching a brilliant." I don't think there is actually a batsman that I can easily remember viewing action (who reveals) the sense of certainty regarding racking up runs that Joe Root gives off. I called it when he performed around 6 today, that he was actually going to acquire 100. I understand he's in excellent form, yet it is actually simply a pleasure to watch a professional, a craftsman at the office." That left behind Sri Lanka requiring to create history of their personal, along with the highest fourth-innings total to gain a match in 147 years of Test history the West Indies' 7-418 versus Australia at St John's in 2002/03. The matching report at Lord's is the West Indies' 1-344 versus England in 1984. Although the floodlights got on, Pope set up frontline spinner Shoaib Bashir as well as Origin's part-time off-breaks in a bid to cease the suit being stopped for bad light.But the moderators carried out let England's quicks bowl as Atkinson possessed Madushka (13) bordering to Origin before the injury-plagued Stone, in his first Test for three years, took out Pathum Nissanka (14) in similar fashion.