.Joe Root specified an England report of 34 Exam centuries as Sri Lanka were entrusted to a massive hunt to win the second Exam at Lord's on Saturday.Root's 103, the celebrity batter's second numerous the suit after he made 143 in the 1st innings, took England to a second-innings total amount of 251 all out on the third day.That left behind Sri Lanka requiring 483 to level this three-Test set at 1-1 observing England's five-wicket win at Old Trafford last week.Watch every round of the England v Sri Lanka Test series LIVE & exclusive to Fox Cricket, readily available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free of charge test today > Origin was last man out after edging in front of retired England opener Alastair Prepare's mark of 33 Examination centuries.And having made the quickest century of his 145-Test career, off just 111 receptions, the 33-year-old Origin then held 2 catches in the beginning lapse just before poor illumination ended bet the day.Sri Lanka were 2-53 at stubs, needing to have 430 more operates in an improbable mission to finish a run of six succeeding Exam defeats by England.His seventh Examination hundred at God's gave Root single things of the file for the most Test centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had actually provided his fellow past England leaders Graham Gooch and also Michael Vaughan.It was actually also the very first time Origin had made hundreds in each innings of an Exam, the Yorkshireman participating in 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 really good exciting," Root said to the BBC after the close." It was obviously a nice condition when you are actually much ahead in the video game. Yet you wish to steer it onward as well as acquire it into as tough a placement as achievable." He added: "It doesn't imply you can't score runs if every thing isn't best and also this is actually one thing I have actually found out. There are various other ways you could be reliable, you may revolve the strike, get a few perimeters away and also it carries out obtain much easier." Root was actually taken advantage of by his papa, Matt, as he came back to the canopy after the finish of his innings." Extremely pleased as well as good to share a second along with my daddy walking off the field," he said.Joe Root of England. Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesEngland returned to on 1-25, already 256 runs in advance, after putting away Sri Lanka for 196 in respond to their first-innings 427. Ollie Pope, 2 not out overnight, finished a run of three single-figure scores given that prospering the damaged Ben Stokes as England leader at the start of this series.But Pope, that just before this fit had actually spoken about the difficulties of stabilizing the accountability of captaincy with his part as a No. 3 batsman, offered his arch away on 17. Asitha Fernando went down short and Pope retreated, only for his straight slash to pilot right to Prabath Jayasuriya at deep-seated point.Harry Creek was gone down on 9 when Nishan Madushka dropped a regimen drawback following a top-edged slog sweep left-arm article spinner Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya did put away Creek for 37, along with Madushka making no mistake at deep mid-wicket, as well as possessed Jamie Smith lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper missed out on a sweep.The serene Root, however, two times swept and after that reverse-swept Jayasuriya for 3 fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, clean from his first five-star century of 118 in the initial innings, and Matthew Potts both joined simple sequence, Root-- at that point 88 certainly not out-- ran the risk of lacking partners prior to he arrived at three figures.But Olly Stone held company, with a happy Root going to his hundred when he cut Lahiru Kumara for a tenth four before he holed out off the paceman.England's Joe Root is actually embraced by his father Matt. Image by Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is rather merely England's ultimate, as well as it is actually absolutely right that he must possess this document, on his very own," Chef, that was England's captain in each of Root's very first 53 Exams, said on commentary for the BBC's Exam Match Special." Take it in, Joe. Our team are actually seeing a genius." I don't assume there is actually a batsman that I can bear in mind enjoying action (that portions) the feeling of inevitability regarding racking up operates that Joe Root emits. I contacted it when he got on around 6 today, that he was going to acquire one hundred. I know he resides in terrific type, but it's only a delight to watch a professional, an artisan at the office." That left behind Sri Lanka needing to have to make history of their very own, along with the highest possible fourth-innings total to win a match in 147 years of Exam past the West Indies' 7-418 versus Australia at St John's in 2002/03. The corresponding record at Lord's is actually the West Indies' 1-344 against England in 1984. Although the floodlights got on, Pope deployed frontline spinner Shoaib Bashir as well as Root's part time off-breaks in a bid to quit the suit being actually halted for bad light.But the moderators did permit England's quicks bowl as Atkinson had Madushka (13) outlining to Origin just before the injury-plagued Stone, in his first Test for three years, got rid of Pathum Nissanka (14) in similar style.