.Joe Root prepared an England file of 34 Exam centuries as Sri Lanka were entrusted to a massive chase to win the second Exam at God's on Saturday.Root's 103, the celebrity batter's 2nd thousand of the suit after he made 143 in the 1st innings, took England to a second-innings total of 251 full blast on the 3rd day.That left behind Sri Lanka needing to have 483 to level this three-Test set at 1-1 adhering to England's five-wicket succeed at Old Trafford final week.Watch every round of the England v Sri Lanka Exam series LIVE & special to Fox Cricket, offered on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free test today > Origin was last male out after edging in front of retired England opener Alastair Cook's mark of thirty three Test centuries.And having actually produced the quickest century of his 145-Test career, off merely 111 balls, the 33-year-old Root then held 2 catches initially slip prior to bad light finished play for the day.Sri Lanka were actually 2-53 at stubs, requiring 430 even more operates in an improbable journey to end a run of 6 succeeding Examination defeats through England.His seventh Examination hundred at God's provided Origin main belongings of the report for the most Test centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had actually shared with his fellow previous England captains Graham Gooch as well as Michael Vaughan.It was additionally the very first time Root had produced hundreds in each innings of an Examination, the Yorkshireman joining the West Indies' George Headley, Gooch and Vaughan as the only cricketers to have accomplished that accomplishment at God's." That was great enjoyable," Origin informed the BBC after the close." It was actually undoubtedly a good condition when you are actually much in advance in the video game. But you intend to drive it forward as well as acquire it in to as powerful a setting as achievable." He incorporated: "It does not suggest you can not score runs if everything isn't perfect as well as this is one thing I have know. There are various other means you could be efficient, you can revolve the strike, obtain a couple of perimeters away and it does obtain much easier." Root was actually taken advantage of through his father, Matt, as he came back to the pavilion after the coating of his innings." Extremely glad and also nice to discuss a second with my papa strolling off the field," he said.Joe Origin of England. Picture through Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesEngland resumed on 1-25, actually 256 operates in advance, after dismissing Sri Lanka for 196 in respond to their first-innings 427. Ollie Pope, 2 not out overnight, ended a jog of 3 single-figure scores considering that being successful the harmed Ben Stokes as England captain at the start of this particular series.But Pope, that prior to this suit had discussed the troubles of stabilizing the accountability of captaincy with his task as a No. 3 batsman, offered his wicket away on 17. Asitha Fernando lost small as well as Pope retreated, just for his straight lower to pilot straight to Prabath Jayasuriya at deeper point.Harry Creek was actually gone down on 9 when Nishan Madushka dropped a routine catch following a top-edged slog sweep off left-arm rewriter Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya carried out dismiss Brook for 37, with Madushka creating indisputable at deeper mid-wicket, as well as possessed Jamie Smith lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper missed a sweep.The calm Root, however, two times swept and after that reverse-swept Jayasuriya for three fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, clean coming from his initial first-rate century of 118 in the very first innings, and also Matthew Potts both joined quick succession, Root-- at that point 88 not out-- took the chance of lacking companions before he hit 3 figures.But Olly Rock held firm, along with a happy Origin heading to his hundred when he cut Lahiru Kumara for a tenth 4 prior to he holed out off the paceman.England's Joe Root is welcomed through his dad Matt. Photograph by Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is quite simply England's best, and it's dead-on that he should possess this document, on his own," Cook, who was actually England's leader in each of Root's very first 53 Exams, said on comments for the BBC's Examination Suit Exclusive." Take it in, Joe. We are actually checking out a wizard." I do not assume there is actually a batsman that I may don't forget enjoying action (who portions) the sense of destiny regarding racking up runs that Joe Root emits. I called it when he got on approximately 6 today, that he was going to obtain 100. I recognize he resides in excellent form, however it is actually only a pleasure to check out an expert, a specialist at the workplace." That left behind Sri Lanka needing to bring in background of their own, with the highest fourth-innings total to succeed a match in 147 years of Test history the West Indies' 7-418 versus Australia at St John's in 2002/03. The equivalent record at Lord's is the West Indies' 1-344 versus England in 1984. Although the flood lamps got on, Pope deployed frontline rewriter Shoaib Bashir as well as Origin's part-time off-breaks in a proposal to cease the match being halted for bad light.But the peacemakers performed allow England's quicks bowl as Atkinson possessed Madushka (13) bordering to Origin prior to the injury-plagued Rock, in his 1st Exam for three years, eliminated Pathum Nissanka (14) in comparable manner.