.Joe Root specified an England document of 34 Examination centuries as Sri Lanka were actually entrusted a monstrous hunt to win the 2nd Exam at Lord's on Saturday.Root's 103, the celebrity batter's 2nd hundred of the suit after he created 143 in the initial innings, took England to a second-innings total of 251 all out on the third day.That left behind Sri Lanka needing to have 483 to level this three-Test collection at 1-1 adhering to England's five-wicket succeed at Old Trafford final week.Watch every round of the England v Sri Lanka Test collection LIVE & special to Fox Cricket, accessible on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your cost-free trial today > Root was last male out after edging ahead of retired England opener Alastair Chef's mark of 33 Exam centuries.And having made the quickest century of his 145-Test profession, off only 111 receptions, the 33-year-old Origin at that point kept pair of catches in the beginning slip prior to negative lighting finished play for the day.Sri Lanka were 2-53 at stubs, needing 430 additional runs in an extremely unlikely quest to finish a run of 6 successive Test defeats through England.His seventh Exam hundred at Lord's gave Root sole possession of the file for the very most Evaluate centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had provided his fellow previous England leaders Graham Gooch and Michael Vaughan.It was actually also the first time Origin had produced hundreds in both innings of an Exam, the Yorkshireman joining the West Indies' George Headley, Gooch as well as Vaughan as the only cricketers to have attained that accomplishment at Lord's." That was great fun," Root said to the BBC after the close." It was actually obviously a great scenario when you are actually far ahead in the activity. However you wish to drive it onward and get it right into as solid a placement as possible." He included: "It does not suggest you can not rack up runs if whatever isn't perfect and this is actually something I have actually know. There are other methods you can be efficient, you can easily turn the strike, get a handful of boundaries away and it does obtain less complicated." Root was embraced by his daddy, Matt, as he went back to the canopy after the surface of his innings." Quite proud and also nice to discuss an instant with my father walking off the area," 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 certainly not out overnight, ended a jog of three single-figure scores due to the fact that succeeding the wounded Ben Stokes as England leader at the beginning of the series.But Pope, who prior to this fit had actually discussed the challenges of harmonizing the accountability of captaincy with his function as a No. 3 batsman, offered his wicket away on 17. Asitha Fernando lost short and Pope retreated, only for his straight slash to fly straight to Prabath Jayasuriya at deep-seated point.Harry Brook was actually fallen on 9 when Nishan Madushka fell a regular catch observing a top-edged slog sweep off left-arm article spinner Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya did dismiss Brook for 37, along with Madushka making no mistake at deeper mid-wicket, as well as had Jamie Smith lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper skipped a sweep.The calm Root, nonetheless, two times brushed up and afterwards reverse-swept Jayasuriya for 3 fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, new coming from his first superior century of 118 in the initial innings, as well as Matthew Potts both fell in easy sequence, Origin-- then 88 not out-- ran the risk of losing companions before he got to 3 figures.But Olly Stone conducted agency, with an elated Root mosting likely to his hundred when he reduced Lahiru Kumara for a tenth four prior to he holed out off the paceman.England's Joe Root is actually welcomed through his dad Matt. Image through Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is quite just England's biggest, and it's absolutely right that he must possess this record, on his personal," Prepare, who was actually England's leader in each of Root's first 53 Tests, said on discourse for the BBC's Test Match Special." Take it in, Joe. Our experts are actually checking out a brilliant." I don't believe there is actually a batsman that I can don't forget enjoying action (who portions) the feeling of destiny concerning racking up runs that Joe Root releases. I phoned it when he was on around 6 today, that he was actually going to obtain 100. I understand he's in terrific form, yet it's only a satisfaction to view an expert, a specialist at the office." That left Sri Lanka needing to have to create past history of their personal, with the highest fourth-innings total to succeed a suit in 147 years of Exam history the West Indies' 7-418 versus Australia at St John's in 2002/03. The matching record at God's is the West Indies' 1-344 against England in 1984. Although the floodlights performed, Pope released frontline content spinner Shoaib Bashir and Root's part-time off-breaks in a quote to quit the match being actually halted for bad light.But the peacemakers did permit England's quicks bowl as Atkinson had Madushka (thirteen) outlining to Origin just before the injury-plagued Stone, in his 1st Test for three years, removed Pathum Nissanka (14) in similar fashion.