.Joe Root established an England report of 34 Test centuries as Sri Lanka were entrusted to a mammoth hunt to gain the second Test at Lord's on Saturday.Root's 103, the star concoction's second thousand of the suit after he made 143 in the first innings, took England to a second-innings total of 251 all out on the 3rd day.That left Sri Lanka needing to have 483 to level this three-Test set at 1-1 following England's five-wicket gain at Old Trafford last week.Watch every round of the England v Sri Lanka Test set LIVE & special to Fox Cricket, available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free of cost trial today > Root was last guy out after edging ahead of retired England opener Alastair Prepare's mark of 33 Test centuries.And having actually produced the quickest century of his 145-Test job, off merely 111 receptions, the 33-year-old Root after that kept two catches at first lapse prior to poor illumination ended play for the day.Sri Lanka were 2-53 at stumps, needing to have 430 additional runs in an improbable pursuit to end a run of six succeeding Examination beats through England.His 7th Exam hundred at Lord's gave Origin sole ownership of the record for the most Assess centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had provided his fellow previous England captains Graham Gooch as well as Michael Vaughan.It was actually likewise the very first time Origin had actually helped make hundreds in both innings of a Test, the Yorkshireman joining the West Indies' George Headley, Gooch as well as Vaughan as the only cricketers to have actually obtained that accomplishment at Lord's." That was actually good enjoyable," Origin informed the BBC after the shut." It was actually definitely a good scenario when you are actually far ahead of time in the activity. Yet you intend to drive it forward and also obtain it into as powerful a posture as feasible." He included: "It doesn't imply you can't rack up runs if every little thing isn't excellent and also this is one thing I have actually found out. There are actually various other ways you can be reliable, you may revolve the strike, acquire a few perimeters away and it does acquire easier." Root was actually taken advantage of through his papa, Matt, as he came back to the structure after the finish of his innings." Quite pleased as well as pleasant to discuss a second along with my father strolling off the industry," he said.Joe Origin of England. Image 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 respond to their first-innings 427. Ollie Pope, 2 certainly not out overnight, finished a run of 3 single-figure credit ratings due to the fact that prospering the injured Ben Stokes as England leader at the beginning of this series.But Pope, that prior to this fit had actually referred to the problems of harmonizing the obligation of captaincy along with his job as a No. 3 batsman, provided his gate away on 17. Asitha Fernando lost short and also Pope retreated, merely for his square lower to flight straight to Prabath Jayasuriya at deep point.Harry Creek was actually fallen on 9 when Nishan Madushka dropped a routine catch observing a top-edged slog sweep left-arm rewriter Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya carried out dismiss Brook for 37, along with Madushka making indisputable at deep mid-wicket, and also possessed Jamie Johnson lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper overlooked a sweep.The tranquil Origin, having said that, two times swept and after that reverse-swept Jayasuriya for 3 fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, new coming from his first top-notch century of 118 in the initial innings, and also Matthew Potts both fell in quick progression, Root-- after that 88 certainly not out-- risked running out of companions before he arrived at three figures.But Olly Rock held company, along with a happy Origin heading to his hundred when he reduced Lahiru Kumara for a tenth 4 before he holed out off the paceman.England's Joe Origin is taken advantage of through his dad Matt. Photo through Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is actually fairly merely England's biggest, and it's dead-on that he must have this document, on his very own," Cook, that was England's leader in each of Root's very first 53 Tests, stated on commentary for the BBC's Exam Suit Unique." Take it in, Joe. Our team are seeing a wizard." I don't think there's a batsman that I can easily keep in mind seeing play (that allotments) the sense of certainty regarding racking up runs that Joe Origin gives off. I contacted it when he was on around 6 today, that he was going to acquire one hundred. I recognize he's in great kind, yet it is actually just a delight to watch a professional, a craftsman at the workplace." That left Sri Lanka needing to bring in record of their own, with the highest 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 matching document at God's is the West Indies' 1-344 versus England in 1984. Although the floodlights were on, Pope deployed frontline article spinner Shoaib Bashir and also Root's part-time off-breaks in a proposal to quit the match being stopped for poor light.But the moderators performed allow England's quicks bowl as Atkinson possessed Madushka (thirteen) outlining to Origin just before the injury-plagued Rock, in his initial Exam for three years, eliminated Pathum Nissanka (14) in comparable style.