.Joe Root set an England report of 34 Exam centuries as Sri Lanka were actually entrusted to a monstrous hunt to win the 2nd Exam at God's on Saturday.Root's 103, the superstar concoction's 2nd hundred of the match after he created 143 in the very first innings, took England to a second-innings total of 251 fully on the 3rd day.That left behind Sri Lanka needing to have 483 to level this three-Test series at 1-1 following England's five-wicket gain at Old Trafford last week.Watch every sphere of the England v Sri Lanka Exam set LIVE & exclusive to Fox Cricket, on call on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free of cost trial today > Root was actually last guy out after edging ahead of retired England opener Alastair Prepare's mark of 33 Examination centuries.And having actually helped make the quickest century of his 145-Test occupation, off simply 111 balls, the 33-year-old Origin then stored two catches in the beginning slip prior to poor illumination ended bet the day.Sri Lanka were actually 2-53 at stumps, requiring 430 additional runs in an unexpected pursuit to finish an operate of six succeeding Exam defeats by England.His 7th Exam hundred at Lord's provided Origin sole property of the file for the very most Examine centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had shared with his fellow previous England leaders Graham Gooch and Michael Vaughan.It was additionally the first time Origin had created hundreds in both innings of an Examination, the Yorkshireman signing up with the West Indies' George Headley, Gooch and also Vaughan as the only cricketers to have actually achieved that accomplishment at Lord's." That was actually really good fun," Root informed the BBC after the shut." It was definitely a wonderful situation when you are actually far in advance in the game. Yet you want to drive it forward as well as obtain it into as sturdy a setting as feasible." He included: "It does not imply you can't rack up runs if every thing isn't best and also this is one thing I have actually know. There are various other means you may be efficient, you may revolve the strike, receive a few borders away and also it performs get easier." Origin was taken advantage of by his papa, Matt, as he returned to the structure after the surface of his innings." Quite proud as well as nice to share a moment along with my papa strolling off the industry," he said.Joe Origin of England. Photograph by Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesEngland resumed on 1-25, presently 256 runs in advance, after dismissing Sri Lanka for 196 in reply to their first-innings 427. Ollie Pope, 2 not out overnight, ended a jog of three single-figure ratings because doing well the injured Ben Stokes as England captain at the beginning of the series.But Pope, that just before this match had actually mentioned the difficulties of balancing the accountability of captaincy with his function as a No. 3 batsman, offered his wicket away on 17. Asitha Fernando went down small and Pope retreated, just for his square slash to take flight straight to Prabath Jayasuriya at deep point.Harry Creek was actually fallen on 9 when Nishan Madushka lost a regimen drawback complying with a top-edged slog sweep left-arm article spinner Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya performed put away Creek for 37, with Madushka creating indisputable at deeper mid-wicket, and had Jamie Johnson lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper missed a sweep.The tranquil Origin, nevertheless, two times swept and then reverse-swept Jayasuriya for three fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, fresh from his initial five-star century of 118 in the very first innings, as well as Matthew Potts both fell in simple succession, Origin-- at that point 88 not out-- ran the risk of running out of partners before he reached three figures.But Olly Stone held company, along with a happy Root mosting likely to his hundred when he cut Lahiru Kumara for a tenth 4 before he holed out off the paceman.England's Joe Origin is welcomed by his father Matt. Photo through Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is very simply England's greatest, and it is actually absolutely right that he should possess this record, on his personal," Cook, that was England's captain in each of Root's initial 53 Examinations, pointed out on discourse for the BBC's Test Match Exclusive." Take it in, Joe. We are actually viewing a brilliant." I don't assume there is actually a batsman that I can easily don't forget checking out action (that shares) the feeling of destiny concerning scoring operates that Joe Root sends out. I phoned it when he was on about 6 today, that he was actually going to receive 100. I recognize he resides in fantastic form, but it is actually just a satisfaction to see a master, an artisan at work." That left Sri Lanka needing to bring in record of their personal, along with the highest possible fourth-innings complete to succeed a match in 147 years of Examination background the West Indies' 7-418 against Australia at Street John's in 2002/03. The corresponding file at God's is actually the West Indies' 1-344 against England in 1984. Although the floodlights got on, Pope released frontline content spinner Shoaib Bashir as well as Origin's part-time off-breaks in a quote to cease the match being stopped for poor light.But the umpires carried out let England's quicks bowl as Atkinson had Madushka (thirteen) edging to Root before the injury-plagued Rock, in his first Test for three years, removed Pathum Nissanka (14) in comparable style.