.Joe Root prepared an England record of 34 Test centuries as Sri Lanka were entrusted a large chase to win the 2nd Test at Lord's on Saturday.Root's 103, the superstar batter's second many the match after he made 143 in the 1st innings, took England to a second-innings total amount of 251 fully on the third day.That left behind Sri Lanka requiring 483 to even this three-Test set at 1-1 complying with England's five-wicket gain at Old Trafford final week.Watch every ball of the England v Sri Lanka Examination collection LIVE & unique to Fox Cricket, on call on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your complimentary trial today > Origin was last guy out after edging ahead of retired England opener Alastair Prepare's score of 33 Exam centuries.And having actually created the quickest century of his 145-Test job, off simply 111 receptions, the 33-year-old Root after that held pair of catches in the beginning slip prior to bad light ended play for the day.Sri Lanka were actually 2-53 at stubs, needing 430 even more runs in an extremely unlikely mission to finish a run of six succeeding Examination defeats by England.His 7th Exam hundred at God's offered Root only belongings of the document for the very most Assess centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had actually shared with his fellow past England captains Graham Gooch as well as Michael Vaughan.It was actually likewise the very first time Origin had actually helped make hundreds in each innings of an Examination, the Yorkshireman signing up with the West Indies' George Headley, Gooch as well as Vaughan as the only cricketers to have attained that task at God's." That was actually excellent exciting," Origin told the BBC after the shut." It was obviously a nice circumstance when you are actually much in advance in the activity. Yet you wish to steer it ahead and also acquire it right into as sturdy a setting as possible." He incorporated: "It doesn't mean you can't score runs if every thing isn't perfect and this is something I have found out. There are other methods you may be effective, you can rotate the strike, receive a handful of limits away and also it performs receive simpler." Origin was actually taken advantage of through his papa, Matt, as he came back to the pavilion after the coating of his innings." Quite happy and wonderful to discuss a minute along with my father strolling off the area," he said.Joe Root of England. Picture 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 jog of three single-figure scores due to the fact that prospering the injured Ben Stokes as England captain at the beginning of this series.But Pope, that just before this match had discussed the challenges of stabilizing the responsibility of captaincy with his part as a No. 3 batsman, offered his arch away on 17. Asitha Fernando dropped small and also Pope backed away, simply for his straight slash to fly directly to Prabath Jayasuriya at deeper point.Harry Creek was actually lost on 9 when Nishan Madushka fell a routine drawback complying with a top-edged slog sweep left-arm article spinner Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya did dismiss Creek for 37, with Madushka making indisputable at deep-seated mid-wicket, and possessed Jamie Johnson lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper skipped a sweep.The tranquil Root, however, twice swept and afterwards reverse-swept Jayasuriya for three fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, clean coming from his maiden excellent century of 118 in the initial innings, and Matthew Potts both joined quick succession, Root-- after that 88 certainly not out-- took the chance of lacking companions prior to he got to three figures.But Olly Stone conducted company, with a happy Root going to his hundred when he cut Lahiru Kumara for a tenth 4 prior to he holed out off the paceman.England's Joe Root is embraced by his papa Matt. Photo through Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is rather simply England's greatest, and it's dead-on that he ought to have this document, on his own," Prepare, that was England's leader in each of Root's 1st 53 Examinations, said on discourse for the BBC's Test Suit Exclusive." Take it in, Joe. Our team are viewing a genius." I do not assume there is actually a batsman that I can easily keep in mind viewing play (that reveals) the sense of certainty about scoring runs that Joe Root gives off. I contacted it when he got on about 6 today, that he was going to receive 100. I recognize he's in wonderful type, but it's only an enjoyment to enjoy an expert, an artisan at the workplace." That left behind Sri Lanka requiring to bring in record of their very own, with the highest fourth-innings complete to gain a suit in 147 years of Exam past the West Indies' 7-418 versus Australia at Street John's in 2002/03. The matching document at God's is actually the West Indies' 1-344 against England in 1984. Although the flood lamps performed, Pope set up frontline content spinner Shoaib Bashir as well as Origin's part time off-breaks in an offer to cease the match being halted for negative light.But the peacemakers did let England's quicks bowl as Atkinson possessed Madushka (thirteen) outlining to Origin prior to the injury-plagued Rock, in his first Exam for 3 years, cleared away Pathum Nissanka (14) in comparable style.