.Joe Root specified an England file of 34 Exam centuries as Sri Lanka were entrusted to a colossal hunt to succeed the 2nd Test at God's on Saturday.Root's 103, the star concoction's 2nd thousand of the suit after he created 143 in the first innings, took England to a second-innings total of 251 fully on the 3rd day.That left behind Sri Lanka needing 483 to level this three-Test set at 1-1 observing England's five-wicket win at Old Trafford final week.Watch every ball of the England v Sri Lanka Test collection LIVE & exclusive to Fox Cricket, available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of cost trial today > Root was final guy out after edging in front of retired England opener Alastair Cook's score of 33 Exam centuries.And having actually made the quickest century of his 145-Test job, off only 111 receptions, the 33-year-old Root at that point held two catches at first lapse prior to bad light ended play for the day.Sri Lanka were actually 2-53 at stubs, needing 430 even more runs in an unexpected mission to finish a run of six subsequent Exam defeats through England.His seventh Exam hundred at God's gave Root exclusive things of the report for the most Examine centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had shown his fellow past England leaders Graham Gooch and also Michael Vaughan.It was likewise the very first time Origin had produced 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 accomplished that task at Lord's." That was actually really good exciting," Origin said to the BBC after the shut." It was actually certainly a wonderful circumstance when you are far ahead of time in the game. But you would like to steer it onward as well as receive it in to as powerful a posture as possible." He incorporated: "It does not indicate you can't score runs if whatever isn't excellent and also this is something I have actually discovered. There are various other means you may be helpful, you can easily rotate the strike, receive a handful of borders away and it carries out obtain less complicated." Origin was actually welcomed by his papa, Matt, as he came back to the structure after the coating of his innings." Quite glad and also wonderful to share an instant with my papa walking off the industry," he said.Joe Root of England. Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesEngland returned to 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, finished a jog of three single-figure scores given that doing well the injured Ben Stokes as England leader at the beginning of this particular series.But Pope, who before this fit had actually mentioned the problems of harmonizing the task of captaincy along with his role as a No. 3 batsman, provided his gate away on 17. Asitha Fernando dropped short and Pope retreated, simply for his straight lower to flight straight to Prabath Jayasuriya at deeper point.Harry Brook was gone down on 9 when Nishan Madushka went down a regular drawback observing a top-edged slog sweep off left-arm rewriter Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya did put away Brook for 37, with Madushka creating no mistake at deep mid-wicket, and had Jamie Johnson lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper overlooked a sweep.The tranquil Origin, however, twice brushed up and afterwards reverse-swept Jayasuriya for 3 fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, clean from his maiden five-star century of 118 in the 1st innings, and Matthew Potts both fell in simple succession, Origin-- at that point 88 certainly not out-- jeopardized lacking partners prior to he reached 3 figures.But Olly Stone conducted company, with an elated Root mosting likely to his hundred when he reduced Lahiru Kumara for a tenth 4 just before he holed out off the paceman.England's Joe Root is actually taken advantage of through his father Matt. Image through Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is actually quite merely England's biggest, and also it is actually dead-on that he should possess this file, on his own," Chef, that was actually England's captain in each of Origin's first 53 Exams, stated on comments for the BBC's Test Suit Unique." Take it in, Joe. Our team are actually watching a genius." I don't presume there is actually a batsman that I may remember checking out action (who shares) the sense of destiny about scoring runs that Joe Origin releases. I called it when he was on about 6 today, that he was actually going to obtain one hundred. I recognize he remains in terrific kind, however it's only a pleasure to watch an expert, an artisan at the office." That left behind Sri Lanka needing to have to bring in past history of their very own, with the highest fourth-innings complete to succeed a match in 147 years of Exam record the West Indies' 7-418 versus Australia at St John's in 2002/03. The equivalent report at Lord's is actually the West Indies' 1-344 against England in 1984. Although the floodlights got on, Pope released frontline content spinner Shoaib Bashir and also Root's part-time off-breaks in a bid to cease the suit being actually stopped for poor light.But the umpires did let England's quicks bowl as Atkinson possessed Madushka (thirteen) edging to Root prior to the injury-plagued Stone, in his initial Test for three years, got rid of Pathum Nissanka (14) in identical manner.