.Joe Root specified an England record of 34 Test centuries as Sri Lanka were left with a mammoth pursuit to gain the 2nd Test at God's on Saturday.Root's 103, the star batter's second hundred of the suit after he made 143 in the first innings, took England to a second-innings total amount of 251 fully on the 3rd day.That left behind Sri Lanka requiring 483 to even this three-Test series at 1-1 following England's five-wicket gain at Old Trafford last week.Watch every sphere of the England v Sri Lanka Examination series LIVE & exclusive to Fox Cricket, accessible on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your complimentary test today > Root was last man out after edging ahead of retired England opener Alastair Chef's mark of 33 Examination centuries.And having made the quickest century of his 145-Test career, off just 111 balls, the 33-year-old Root after that kept pair of catches initially lapse before poor light finished play for the day.Sri Lanka were actually 2-53 at stumps, needing 430 additional runs in a not likely mission to finish an operate of six subsequent Examination defeats by England.His 7th Exam hundred at Lord's offered Origin exclusive possession of the file for the most Test centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had shown his fellow previous England leaders Graham Gooch and Michael Vaughan.It was likewise the very first time Root had created hundreds in each innings of a Test, the Yorkshireman joining the West Indies' George Headley, Gooch and also Vaughan as the only cricketers to have accomplished that feat at God's." That was actually really good exciting," Origin told the BBC after the shut." It was actually clearly a good situation when you are actually far in advance in the activity. Yet you intend to steer it ahead as well as get it right into as sturdy a posture as possible." He included: "It does not imply you can not rack up operates if everything isn't excellent as well as this is actually something I have learned. There are other techniques you can be efficient, you may revolve the strike, receive a few borders away and also it does obtain much easier." Origin was actually taken advantage of by his daddy, Matt, as he came back to the pavilion after the appearance of his innings." Extremely glad and wonderful to share a second along with my father strolling off the field," he said.Joe Root of England. Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesEngland returned to on 1-25, currently 256 operates ahead of time, after dismissing Sri Lanka for 196 in respond to their first-innings 427. Ollie Pope, 2 certainly not out overnight, ended a jog of three single-figure scores since doing well the injured Ben Stokes as England leader at the start of this series.But Pope, that just before this suit had actually mentioned the troubles of harmonizing the obligation of captaincy with his part as a No. 3 batsman, offered his arch away on 17. Asitha Fernando lost short and Pope backed away, merely for his straight slash to pilot right to Prabath Jayasuriya at deep-seated point.Harry Creek was gone down on 9 when Nishan Madushka dropped a routine catch complying with a top-edged slog sweep left-arm rewriter Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya carried out put away Brook for 37, with Madushka making no mistake at deep mid-wicket, and also had Jamie Johnson lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper missed out on a sweep.The calm Root, having said that, two times brushed up and afterwards reverse-swept Jayasuriya for 3 fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, clean coming from his maiden first-rate century of 118 in the very first innings, and Matthew Potts both fell in quick succession, Root-- after that 88 not out-- risked lacking partners just before he hit three figures.But Olly Stone hosted agency, with an elated Root visiting his hundred when he reduced Lahiru Kumara for a tenth four just before he holed out off the paceman.England's Joe Root is actually welcomed through his father Matt. Image through Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is actually very simply England's greatest, as well as it is actually dead-on that he needs to possess this record, on his personal," Chef, that was England's leader in each of Origin's 1st 53 Tests, mentioned on discourse for the BBC's Exam Match Unique." Take it in, Joe. Our team are enjoying a genius." I do not presume there is actually a batsman that I can always remember watching action (who portions) the sense of inevitability regarding racking up operates that Joe Root emits. I phoned it when he performed approximately 6 today, that he was going to get 100. I recognize he's in fantastic form, yet it's merely a delight to enjoy an expert, a specialist at work." That left Sri Lanka needing to have to bring in past history of their very own, with the highest possible fourth-innings total to gain a suit in 147 years of Examination past history the West Indies' 7-418 versus Australia at Street John's in 2002/03. The corresponding record at God's is the West Indies' 1-344 against England in 1984. Although the flood lamps performed, Pope deployed frontline content spinner Shoaib Bashir and also Origin's part-time off-breaks in a bid to stop the match being actually stopped for bad light.But the umpires did let England's quicks bowl as Atkinson had Madushka (13) outlining to Origin prior to the injury-plagued Rock, in his 1st Test for 3 years, eliminated Pathum Nissanka (14) in similar fashion.