.Joe Root specified an England file of 34 Test centuries as Sri Lanka were entrusted a mammoth pursuit to gain the second Test at Lord's on Saturday.Root's 103, the star batter's second thousand of the match after he made 143 in the initial innings, took England to a second-innings overall of 251 all out on the 3rd day.That left Sri Lanka requiring 483 to level this three-Test set at 1-1 observing England's five-wicket gain at Old Trafford last week.Watch every sphere of the England v Sri Lanka Examination collection LIVE & special to Fox Cricket, on call on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free of charge trial today > Origin was actually last male out after edging before retired England opener Alastair Prepare's score of 33 Examination centuries.And having created the quickest century of his 145-Test career, off simply 111 receptions, the 33-year-old Root at that point stored 2 catches at first slip just before poor lighting finished play for the day.Sri Lanka were 2-53 at stubs, requiring 430 even more runs in an improbable pursuit to end a run of six successive Test defeats by England.His seventh Test hundred at Lord's provided Root single possession of the report for the very most Test centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had actually shown his fellow former England leaders Graham Gooch and Michael Vaughan.It was actually additionally the first time Root had helped make hundreds in each innings of an Exam, the Yorkshireman signing up with the West Indies' George Headley, Gooch and also Vaughan as the only cricketers to have attained that task at God's." That was actually excellent fun," Root said to the BBC after the shut." It was clearly a pleasant circumstance when you are actually much in advance in the video game. But you would like to steer it ahead as well as receive it in to as sturdy a placement as achievable." He included: "It doesn't suggest you can't score runs if every thing isn't ideal and this is one thing I have know. There are actually other means you may be successful, you can easily spin the strike, receive a couple of limits away and it performs acquire less complicated." Origin was actually welcomed through his father, Matt, as he came back to the pavilion after the surface of his innings." Extremely glad and also nice to share a moment with my father strolling off the area," he said.Joe Origin of England. Picture through Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesEngland returned to on 1-25, currently 256 operates in advance, 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 ratings because succeeding the injured Ben Stokes as England captain at the start of this series.But Pope, who prior to this suit had referred to the troubles of harmonizing the duty of captaincy with his part as a No. 3 batsman, provided his opening away on 17. Asitha Fernando dropped short and Pope backed away, only for his square slash to pilot right to Prabath Jayasuriya at deeper point.Harry Brook was dropped on 9 when Nishan Madushka went down a routine drawback adhering to a top-edged slog sweep left-arm article spinner Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya performed put away Brook for 37, with Madushka making indisputable at deep mid-wicket, and also had Jamie Johnson lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper overlooked a sweep.The serene Origin, having said that, two times swept and afterwards reverse-swept Jayasuriya for 3 fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, new coming from his first excellent century of 118 in the first innings, and Matthew Potts both joined easy progression, Origin-- then 88 not out-- took the chance of losing partners prior to he got to 3 figures.But Olly Rock hosted organization, with a happy Root visiting his hundred when he reduced Lahiru Kumara for a tenth 4 just before he holed out off the paceman.England's Joe Root is embraced through his papa Matt. Photograph by Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is actually quite just England's biggest, and also it's dead-on that he ought to have this document, on his personal," Prepare, that was actually England's leader in each of Root's 1st 53 Tests, mentioned on comments for the BBC's Examination Suit Unique." Take it in, Joe. Our company are checking out a brilliant." I do not believe there's a batsman that I may remember viewing play (who shares) the feeling of inevitability regarding scoring operates that Joe Root emits. I phoned it when he got on approximately 6 today, that he was actually going to acquire 100. I recognize he resides in terrific kind, yet it is actually merely a pleasure to enjoy a professional, a specialist at the office." That left Sri Lanka needing to have to make history of their very own, with the greatest fourth-innings complete to gain a match in 147 years of Examination record the West Indies' 7-418 versus Australia at Street John's in 2002/03. The equivalent record at Lord's is the West Indies' 1-344 against England in 1984. Although the flood lamps got on, Pope deployed frontline rewriter Shoaib Bashir as well as Root's part-time off-breaks in a quote to stop the match being actually stopped for negative light.But the umpires carried out let England's quicks bowl as Atkinson had Madushka (thirteen) bordering to Origin before the injury-plagued Stone, in his 1st Exam for three years, cleared away Pathum Nissanka (14) in comparable manner.