.Joe Root prepared an England report of 34 Exam centuries as Sri Lanka were entrusted to a colossal pursuit to gain the second Test at God's on Saturday.Root's 103, the superstar concoction's 2nd hundred of the suit after he made 143 in the initial innings, took England to a second-innings overall of 251 all out on the 3rd day.That left behind Sri Lanka needing 483 to even this three-Test series at 1-1 observing England's five-wicket gain at Old Trafford final week.Watch every round of the England v Sri Lanka Exam collection LIVE & exclusive to Fox Cricket, offered on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your complimentary trial today > Root was actually last man out after edging before retired England opener Alastair Prepare's score of thirty three Exam centuries.And having produced the quickest century of his 145-Test occupation, off only 111 balls, the 33-year-old Origin at that point kept pair of catches at first slip before poor lighting ended bet the day.Sri Lanka were actually 2-53 at stumps, needing 430 more operates in a not likely journey to end a run of six subsequent Exam beats by England.His 7th Exam hundred at God's offered Root sole property of the report for the most Assess centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had actually shown his fellow former England captains Graham Gooch as well as Michael Vaughan.It was likewise the very first time Origin had produced hundreds in each innings of a Test, the Yorkshireman signing up with the West Indies' George Headley, Gooch and Vaughan as the only cricketers to have actually accomplished that feat at Lord's." That was actually great enjoyable," Root informed the BBC after the shut." It was obviously a good circumstance when you are much ahead of time in the game. But you intend to steer it onward as well as get it into as sturdy a posture as achievable." He included: "It doesn't indicate you can't score operates if everything isn't ideal and this is something I have found out. There are actually various other ways you can be helpful, you can rotate the strike, obtain a few borders away as well as it carries out acquire less complicated." Origin was actually welcomed through his father, Matt, as he returned to the structure after the coating of his innings." Incredibly glad and also wonderful to share an instant with my father walking off the area," he said.Joe Root of England. Image by Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesEngland returned to on 1-25, already 256 operates ahead, after dismissing Sri Lanka for 196 in respond to their first-innings 427. Ollie Pope, 2 not out overnight, finished a run of 3 single-figure scores since prospering the injured Ben Stokes as England captain at the start of the series.But Pope, that just before this paired had actually discussed the challenges of harmonizing the task of captaincy with his task as a No. 3 batsman, offered his arch away on 17. Asitha Fernando dropped small and Pope retreated, just for his straight cut down to pilot directly to Prabath Jayasuriya at deep-seated point.Harry Brook was actually gone down on 9 when Nishan Madushka went down a regimen catch complying with a top-edged slog sweep left-arm content spinner Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya carried out dismiss Brook for 37, with Madushka making no mistake at deep mid-wicket, as well as possessed Jamie Johnson lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper missed a sweep.The peaceful Root, however, twice brushed up and after that reverse-swept Jayasuriya for 3 fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, new coming from his maiden top-notch century of 118 in the very first innings, and Matthew Potts both joined quick sequence, Origin-- after that 88 certainly not out-- risked running out of companions before he hit three figures.But Olly Rock held organization, with an elated Origin mosting likely to his hundred when he cut Lahiru Kumara for a tenth four before he holed out off the paceman.England's Joe Origin is actually taken advantage of by his father Matt. Image by Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is pretty merely England's best, and also it's dead-on that he ought to possess this report, on his own," Cook, that was England's captain in each of Origin's 1st 53 Exams, stated on comments for the BBC's Examination Match Special." Take it in, Joe. Our company are actually enjoying a brilliant." I don't presume there is actually a batsman that I may keep in mind enjoying action (that portions) the feeling of inevitability regarding racking up runs that Joe Root gives off. I phoned it when he performed approximately 6 today, that he was going to obtain 100. I know he resides in great type, however it's merely an enjoyment to see a professional, a specialist at work." That left Sri Lanka requiring to bring in background of their very own, along with the highest possible fourth-innings total to succeed a match in 147 years of Examination history the West Indies' 7-418 against Australia at St John's in 2002/03. The equivalent file at Lord's is actually the West Indies' 1-344 against England in 1984. Although the flood lamps performed, Pope released frontline spinner Shoaib Bashir as well as Origin's part-time off-breaks in a proposal to quit the suit being stopped for bad light.But the peacemakers did permit England's quicks bowl as Atkinson possessed Madushka (13) bordering to Root before the injury-plagued Stone, in his 1st Test for three years, removed Pathum Nissanka (14) in comparable fashion.