.Joe Root specified an England record of 34 Exam centuries as Sri Lanka were left with a monstrous chase to gain the 2nd Test at God's on Saturday.Root's 103, the superstar batter's second dozens the suit after he created 143 in the 1st innings, took England to a second-innings overall of 251 fully on the third day.That left behind Sri Lanka needing 483 to level this three-Test collection at 1-1 adhering to England's five-wicket win at Old Trafford final week.Watch every round of the England v Sri Lanka Examination series LIVE & unique to Fox Cricket, on call on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free test today > Root was actually final man out after edging in front of retired England opener Alastair Cook's score of 33 Test centuries.And having made the quickest century of his 145-Test profession, off just 111 receptions, the 33-year-old Root after that stored 2 catches initially lapse prior to bad illumination ended play for the day.Sri Lanka were 2-53 at stumps, needing to have 430 additional operates in an extremely unlikely mission to end a run of six subsequent Test defeats by England.His 7th Exam hundred at God's offered Origin single ownership of the document for the very most Assess centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had actually provided his fellow previous England leaders Graham Gooch and Michael Vaughan.It was actually additionally the first time Root had actually made hundreds in both innings of an Exam, the Yorkshireman signing up with the West Indies' George Headley, Gooch and Vaughan as the only cricketers to have actually attained that feat at God's." That was good fun," Root told the BBC after the close." It was actually clearly a pleasant situation when you are far in advance in the video game. Yet you desire to drive it onward and acquire it into as strong a setting as feasible." He incorporated: "It does not mean you can not rack up operates if everything isn't ideal and this is one thing I have actually discovered. There are other ways you could be helpful, you can easily revolve the strike, acquire a couple of limits away and also it carries out obtain much easier." Root was accepted by his father, Matt, as he returned to the pavilion after the surface of his innings." Very glad as well as great to share an instant along with my papa strolling off the area," he said.Joe Origin of England. Photo through Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesEngland returned to on 1-25, actually 256 operates ahead, after dismissing Sri Lanka for 196 in reply to their first-innings 427. Ollie Pope, 2 certainly not out overnight, ended a jog of three single-figure credit ratings because prospering the hurt Ben Stokes as England leader at the start of this particular series.But Pope, who prior to this paired had actually mentioned the challenges of stabilizing the accountability of captaincy with his job as a No. 3 batsman, provided his arch away on 17. Asitha Fernando dropped small as well as Pope retreated, simply for his straight slash to fly right to Prabath Jayasuriya at deeper point.Harry Creek was fallen on 9 when Nishan Madushka fell a regular catch observing a top-edged slog sweep off left-arm spinner Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya performed dismiss Creek for 37, along with Madushka making no mistake at deep-seated mid-wicket, as well as had Jamie Smith lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper overlooked a sweep.The tranquil Root, having said that, two times brushed up and afterwards reverse-swept Jayasuriya for 3 fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, fresh coming from his first top-notch century of 118 in the 1st innings, as well as Matthew Potts both fell in fast succession, Root-- after that 88 not out-- risked losing companions before he arrived at 3 figures.But Olly Rock hosted firm, along with a happy Origin 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 Origin is embraced by his dad Matt. Photo by Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is fairly merely England's greatest, and it's dead-on that he must possess this file, on his own," Prepare, that was actually England's leader in each of Root's initial 53 Examinations, pointed out on discourse for the BBC's Examination Suit Unique." Take it in, Joe. Our company are actually enjoying a brilliant." I don't assume there's a batsman that I can bear in mind seeing play (who reveals) the feeling of inevitability regarding racking up operates that Joe Origin produces. I contacted it when he was on approximately 6 today, that he was actually going to acquire one hundred. I recognize he remains in terrific form, but it is actually just a satisfaction to see a master, an artisan at work." That left Sri Lanka needing to have to create record of their own, along with the greatest fourth-innings complete to win a match in 147 years of Exam past history the West Indies' 7-418 against Australia at St John's in 2002/03. The matching record at God's is actually the West Indies' 1-344 versus 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 suit being actually stopped for negative light.But the moderators carried out allow England's quicks bowl as Atkinson possessed Madushka (13) outlining to Origin before the injury-plagued Stone, in his 1st Test for 3 years, removed Pathum Nissanka (14) in comparable fashion trend.