.Joe Root set an England record of 34 Examination centuries as Sri Lanka were entrusted to a mammoth pursuit to win the second Exam at God's on Saturday.Root's 103, the superstar concoction's 2nd many the match after he created 143 in the first innings, took England to a second-innings overall of 251 full blast on the 3rd day.That left Sri Lanka requiring 483 to even this three-Test collection at 1-1 complying with England's five-wicket gain at Old Trafford last week.Watch every sphere of the England v Sri Lanka Examination collection LIVE & unique to Fox Cricket, readily available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free of charge trial today > Origin was actually final male out after edging before retired England opener Alastair Cook's mark of thirty three Test centuries.And having produced the quickest century of his 145-Test occupation, off just 111 balls, the 33-year-old Root after that held two catches at first slip before poor illumination finished play for the day.Sri Lanka were actually 2-53 at stumps, requiring 430 more operates in an unlikely pursuit to end a run of 6 subsequent Test defeats through England.His seventh Exam hundred at Lord's provided Origin main property of the report for the most Test centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had actually shared with his fellow former England captains Graham Gooch and Michael Vaughan.It was actually additionally the first time Origin had produced hundreds in each innings of an Examination, the Yorkshireman joining the West Indies' George Headley, Gooch and also Vaughan as the only cricketers to have actually attained that task at God's." That was good fun," Origin told the BBC after the close." It was undoubtedly a wonderful circumstance when you are actually far ahead of time in the activity. But you wish to drive it ahead and receive it into as solid a setting as possible." He incorporated: "It does not indicate you can't rack up runs if every little thing isn't best as well as this is actually something I have actually learned. There are various other means you may be successful, you can turn the strike, obtain a couple of borders away as well as it does acquire simpler." Root was welcomed by his papa, Matt, as he went back to the canopy after the surface of his innings." Really pleased and also good to share a second along with my daddy strolling off the area," he said.Joe Root of England. Photograph through Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesEngland resumed on 1-25, already 256 operates ahead, 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 3 single-figure credit ratings since prospering the injured Ben Stokes as England captain at the beginning of this series.But Pope, who just before this match had actually spoken about the challenges of harmonizing the obligation of captaincy along with his part as a No. 3 batsman, gave his opening away on 17. Asitha Fernando went down small and also Pope pulled back, just for his square lower to take flight right to Prabath Jayasuriya at deep-seated point.Harry Creek was actually dropped on 9 when Nishan Madushka lost a routine drawback observing a top-edged slog sweep off left-arm spinner Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya performed put away Creek for 37, with Madushka making no mistake at deep-seated mid-wicket, and possessed Jamie Johnson lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper skipped a sweep.The calm Origin, however, twice brushed up and then reverse-swept Jayasuriya for 3 fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, clean from his first five-star century of 118 in the 1st innings, and Matthew Potts both fell in simple succession, Root-- then 88 not out-- jeopardized running out of partners before he got to 3 figures.But Olly Rock conducted company, along with an elated Root visiting his hundred when he cut Lahiru Kumara for a tenth 4 prior to he holed out off the paceman.England's Joe Origin is taken advantage of by his papa Matt. Photograph by Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is actually fairly just England's biggest, and it is actually dead-on that he should have this report, on his own," Prepare, who was England's captain in each of Origin's 1st 53 Exams, stated on comments for the BBC's Examination Suit Special." Take it in, Joe. Our company are checking out a genius." I do not believe there's a batsman that I can easily remember enjoying action (who allotments) the feeling of inevitability about scoring runs that Joe Root releases. I called it when he was on about 6 today, that he was going to get 100. I understand he remains in fantastic form, yet it is actually only a pleasure to watch an expert, a craftsman at work." That left behind Sri Lanka requiring to bring in past history of their personal, along with the highest possible fourth-innings complete to gain a suit in 147 years of Examination record the West Indies' 7-418 versus Australia at St John's in 2002/03. The equivalent report at Lord's is actually the West Indies' 1-344 against England in 1984. Although the floodlights performed, Pope released frontline rewriter Shoaib Bashir and Origin's part time off-breaks in a quote to quit the match being halted for poor light.But the moderators carried out let England's quicks bowl as Atkinson possessed Madushka (thirteen) edging to Root just before the injury-plagued Stone, in his very first Examination for 3 years, removed Pathum Nissanka (14) in comparable style.