.Joe Root prepared an England record of 34 Test centuries as Sri Lanka were left with a mammoth chase to succeed the second Examination at God's on Saturday.Root's 103, the superstar batter's 2nd hundred of the match after he made 143 in the initial innings, took England to a second-innings total amount of 251 fully on the third day.That left behind Sri Lanka needing to have 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 Exam set LIVE & unique to Fox Cricket, accessible on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your cost-free test today > Root was last man out after edging in advance of retired England opener Alastair Prepare's score of 33 Examination centuries.And having actually made the quickest century of his 145-Test career, off just 111 balls, the 33-year-old Origin at that point held two catches initially lapse before negative light finished play for the day.Sri Lanka were actually 2-53 at stubs, needing 430 more operates in an improbable quest to finish a run of 6 succeeding Test defeats through England.His seventh Exam hundred at Lord's provided Origin only belongings of the file for the very most Examine centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had actually shown his fellow former England captains Graham Gooch and also Michael Vaughan.It was also the first time Root had actually helped make hundreds in each innings of a Test, the Yorkshireman participating in the West Indies' George Headley, Gooch as well as Vaughan as the only cricketers to have actually obtained that task at God's." That was good enjoyable," Root informed the BBC after the shut." It was clearly a nice situation when you are actually much in advance in the activity. But you wish to steer it ahead and also receive it into as solid a position as feasible." He included: "It does not indicate you can not score runs if every thing isn't excellent and this is actually something I have learned. There are actually other techniques you can be reliable, you may revolve the strike, obtain a handful of boundaries away as well as it performs obtain simpler." Origin was actually taken advantage of by his papa, Matt, as he went back to the structure after the surface of his innings." Quite proud and also good to share a moment along with my dad walking off the field," he said.Joe Root of England. Photograph by Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesEngland returned to on 1-25, actually 256 runs in advance, after dismissing Sri Lanka for 196 in reply to their first-innings 427. Ollie Pope, 2 certainly not out overnight, finished a run of 3 single-figure credit ratings considering that doing well the harmed Ben Stokes as England leader at the start of this particular series.But Pope, who just before this match had actually mentioned the problems of balancing the responsibility of captaincy with his role as a No. 3 batsman, provided his arch away on 17. Asitha Fernando lost short and also Pope backed away, only for his straight lower to fly directly to Prabath Jayasuriya at deep point.Harry Creek was lost on 9 when Nishan Madushka dropped a routine drawback adhering to a top-edged slog sweep off left-arm spinner Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya performed put away Creek for 37, with Madushka making no mistake at deep-seated mid-wicket, and possessed Jamie Smith lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper missed a sweep.The calm Root, however, twice swept 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 sequence, Origin-- then 88 not out-- risked running out of companions just before he hit three figures.But Olly Rock had firm, along with a happy Root visiting his hundred when he reduced Lahiru Kumara for a tenth 4 before he holed out off the paceman.England's Joe Root is accepted through his daddy Matt. Photograph by Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is very just England's ultimate, and also it's dead-on that he must possess this file, on his very own," Prepare, that was actually England's captain in each of Root's initial 53 Examinations, stated on commentary for the BBC's Test Match Unique." Take it in, Joe. Our company are actually enjoying a genius." I do not think there's a batsman that I can keep in mind watching action (that portions) the sense of destiny regarding scoring runs that Joe Origin sends out. I called it when he performed approximately 6 today, that he was actually going to receive 100. I recognize he remains in wonderful kind, however it is actually only a delight to view a professional, a craftsman at the workplace." That left Sri Lanka needing to bring in record of their own, with the best fourth-innings tot to succeed a suit in 147 years of Examination record the West Indies' 7-418 versus Australia at Street John's in 2002/03. The corresponding record at Lord's is actually the West Indies' 1-344 versus England in 1984. Although the floodlights were on, Pope released frontline spinner Shoaib Bashir and also Origin's part-time off-breaks in a quote to quit the suit being actually stopped for negative light.But the umpires did allow England's quicks bowl as Atkinson had Madushka (thirteen) edging to Root just before the injury-plagued Rock, in his 1st Exam for 3 years, took out Pathum Nissanka (14) in similar fashion trend.