.Joe Root established an England record of 34 Test centuries as Sri Lanka were entrusted to a mammoth chase to win the second Test at God's on Saturday.Root's 103, the superstar batter's second dozens the suit after he made 143 in the very first innings, took England to a second-innings total of 251 all out on the 3rd day.That left Sri Lanka needing 483 to level this three-Test series at 1-1 adhering to England's five-wicket succeed at Old Trafford last week.Watch every round of the England v Sri Lanka Examination set LIVE & unique to Fox Cricket, on call on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your cost-free test today > Origin was actually last guy out after edging in front of retired England opener Alastair Prepare's score of thirty three Exam centuries.And having helped make the quickest century of his 145-Test occupation, off just 111 receptions, the 33-year-old Root then stored pair of catches at first lapse just before poor lighting ended bet the day.Sri Lanka were actually 2-53 at stubs, needing 430 more operates in an improbable journey to finish a run of 6 successive Exam defeats by England.His 7th Test hundred at Lord's offered Root single things of the record for the very most Evaluate centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had shown to his fellow past England leaders Graham Gooch as well as Michael Vaughan.It was likewise the very first time Origin had created hundreds in each innings of an Examination, the Yorkshireman joining the West Indies' George Headley, Gooch and also Vaughan as the only cricketers to have obtained that task at God's." That was actually excellent fun," Root said to the BBC after the close." It was undoubtedly a great situation when you are actually much ahead in the activity. However you would like to steer it onward and also receive it into as strong a setting as achievable." He included: "It does not suggest you can't score operates if everything isn't perfect and also this is one thing I have actually know. There are actually various other methods you may be helpful, you may rotate the strike, acquire a few boundaries away as well as it performs obtain much easier." Root was actually welcomed by his dad, Matt, as he came back to the canopy after the coating of his innings." Incredibly glad and also wonderful to share an instant with my daddy strolling off the field," he said.Joe Origin of England. Picture through Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesEngland returned to on 1-25, already 256 operates ahead, after putting away Sri Lanka for 196 in respond to their first-innings 427. Ollie Pope, 2 not out overnight, finished a run of three single-figure ratings given that succeeding the wounded Ben Stokes as England captain at the beginning of the series.But Pope, that prior to this fit had discussed the problems of harmonizing the task of captaincy with his function as a No. 3 batsman, offered his arch away on 17. Asitha Fernando went down short as well as Pope retreated, just for his square cut down to pilot directly to Prabath Jayasuriya at deep point.Harry Creek was actually gone down on 9 when Nishan Madushka went down a regular catch adhering to a top-edged slog sweep left-arm article spinner Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya did dismiss Brook for 37, along with Madushka making no mistake at deeper mid-wicket, and possessed Jamie Johnson lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper missed out on a sweep.The serene Root, having said that, twice brushed up and afterwards reverse-swept Jayasuriya for 3 fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, new from his first first-rate century of 118 in the 1st innings, and Matthew Potts both fell in fast progression, Origin-- at that point 88 certainly not out-- took the chance of losing partners before he arrived at 3 figures.But Olly Rock hosted firm, with a happy Origin 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 welcomed by his father Matt. Photo through Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is quite just England's biggest, and also it's dead-on that he ought to possess this file, on his very own," Prepare, who was England's captain in each of Root's very first 53 Exams, mentioned on commentary for the BBC's Examination Match Unique." Take it in, Joe. We are actually watching a genius." I do not think there is actually a batsman that I can keep in mind watching action (who reveals) the feeling of inevitability concerning scoring runs that Joe Origin gives off. I contacted it when he performed approximately 6 today, that he was going to get one hundred. I know he resides in fantastic form, yet it's simply an enjoyment to watch a master, a craftsman at the office." That left Sri Lanka needing to have to create record of their own, with the greatest fourth-innings total to win a suit in 147 years of Test record the West Indies' 7-418 versus Australia at St John's in 2002/03. The matching record at God's is the West Indies' 1-344 versus England in 1984. Although the flood lamps performed, Pope set up frontline content spinner Shoaib Bashir as well as Origin's part time off-breaks in a bid to quit the match being stopped for poor light.But the umpires performed permit England's quicks bowl as Atkinson had Madushka (13) outlining to Root before the injury-plagued Rock, in his initial Examination for three years, took out Pathum Nissanka (14) in comparable fashion trend.