.Joe Root specified an England record of 34 Test centuries as Sri Lanka were left with a mammoth hunt to win the second Test at Lord's on Saturday.Root's 103, the star batter's second thousand of the suit after he made 143 in the initial innings, took England to a second-innings total of 251 fully on the 3rd day.That left Sri Lanka requiring 483 to level this three-Test set 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 set LIVE & exclusive to Fox Cricket, available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free trial today > Origin was actually last guy out after edging before retired England opener Alastair Prepare's mark of 33 Exam centuries.And having actually created the quickest century of his 145-Test job, off just 111 receptions, the 33-year-old Root then stored 2 catches at first slip before negative lighting finished play for the day.Sri Lanka were actually 2-53 at stumps, requiring 430 more runs in an extremely unlikely pursuit to end a run of six succeeding Examination defeats by England.His 7th Examination hundred at Lord's gave Root main belongings of the file for the very most Assess centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had shown his fellow previous England captains Graham Gooch as well as Michael Vaughan.It was likewise the very first time Root had actually produced hundreds in both innings of an Examination, the Yorkshireman participating in the West Indies' George Headley, Gooch and Vaughan as the only cricketers to have actually accomplished that accomplishment at God's." That was great enjoyable," Root told the BBC after the close." It was actually definitely a nice scenario when you are actually much in advance in the video game. But you wish to steer it onward and also obtain it right into as solid a setting as achievable." He included: "It doesn't mean you can not rack up operates if every thing isn't perfect as well as this is something I have found out. There are actually other ways you could be efficient, you can spin the strike, obtain a handful of perimeters away as well as it carries out obtain less complicated." Origin was taken advantage of through his daddy, Matt, as he came back to the pavilion after the surface of his innings." Really honored as well as wonderful to discuss a minute with my dad walking off the industry," he said.Joe Origin of England. Picture through Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesEngland resumed on 1-25, actually 256 operates ahead of time, after putting away 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 because doing well the harmed Ben Stokes as England captain at the start of the series.But Pope, who prior to this match had discussed the challenges of harmonizing the obligation of captaincy along with his function as a No. 3 batsman, offered his arch away on 17. Asitha Fernando went down short and also Pope retreated, merely for his square cut down to fly directly to Prabath Jayasuriya at deeper point.Harry Brook was actually fallen on 9 when Nishan Madushka dropped a regular catch complying with a top-edged slog sweep left-arm spinner Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya performed put away Brook for 37, with Madushka making indisputable at deep mid-wicket, as well as had Jamie Smith lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper skipped a sweep.The calm Origin, nevertheless, two times brushed up and after that reverse-swept Jayasuriya for 3 fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, fresh coming from his maiden excellent century of 118 in the initial innings, and also Matthew Potts both joined easy succession, Root-- then 88 not out-- risked lacking companions just before he hit three figures.But Olly Rock had firm, along with an elated Origin heading to his hundred when he reduced Lahiru Kumara for a tenth 4 before he holed out off the paceman.England's Joe Root is taken advantage of by his daddy Matt. Image through Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is actually pretty just England's best, and also it is actually dead-on that he ought to possess this record, on his personal," Prepare, that was actually England's leader in each of Root's first 53 Tests, claimed on discourse for the BBC's Test Match Special." Take it in, Joe. Our experts are actually checking out a wizard." I do not think there is actually a batsman that I can easily keep in mind viewing action (that reveals) the sense of inevitability concerning racking up runs that Joe Root gives off. I contacted it when he performed about 6 today, that he was actually going to get one hundred. I recognize he remains in excellent kind, yet it's just an enjoyment to see an expert, an artisan at the office." That left behind Sri Lanka needing to have to bring in background of their own, with the best fourth-innings tot to gain a suit in 147 years of Examination history the West Indies' 7-418 versus Australia at Street John's in 2002/03. The equivalent file at God's is actually the West Indies' 1-344 against England in 1984. Although the flood lamps got on, Pope deployed frontline spinner Shoaib Bashir and Root's part-time off-breaks in a bid to cease the match being actually halted for poor light.But the umpires carried out let England's quicks bowl as Atkinson possessed Madushka (13) outlining to Root prior to the injury-plagued Rock, in his 1st Examination for 3 years, took out Pathum Nissanka (14) in comparable fashion.