.Joe Root established an England record of 34 Examination centuries as Sri Lanka were entrusted a massive chase to win the 2nd Exam at God's on Saturday.Root's 103, the celebrity concoction's 2nd thousand of the suit after he created 143 in the 1st innings, took England to a second-innings overall of 251 fully on the 3rd day.That left Sri Lanka needing to have 483 to level this three-Test collection at 1-1 adhering to England's five-wicket gain at Old Trafford last week.Watch every sphere of the England v Sri Lanka Test collection LIVE & exclusive to Fox Cricket, on call on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free test today > Origin was final guy out after edging in front of retired England opener Alastair Prepare's score of thirty three Examination centuries.And having produced the quickest century of his 145-Test occupation, off just 111 receptions, the 33-year-old Origin then kept pair of catches initially lapse just before negative light finished bet the day.Sri Lanka were actually 2-53 at stubs, requiring 430 more runs in a not likely mission to finish an operate of 6 succeeding Test beats by England.His 7th Examination hundred at God's gave Origin only property of the file for the very most Test centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had actually shown his fellow past England captains Graham Gooch and also Michael Vaughan.It was actually additionally the very first time Root had actually created hundreds in both innings of an Exam, the Yorkshireman signing up with the West Indies' George Headley, Gooch and also Vaughan as the only cricketers to have actually obtained that task at Lord's." That was actually really good exciting," Root informed the BBC after the shut." It was clearly a good circumstance when you are actually much in advance in the video game. But you want to steer it forward as well as obtain it in to as sturdy a placement as feasible." He added: "It doesn't mean you can't score runs if every little thing isn't best as well as this is one thing I have actually found out. There are actually other means you could be reliable, you can rotate the strike, obtain a couple of borders away and it performs get less complicated." Root was embraced by his papa, Matt, as he came back to the pavilion after the finish of his innings." Quite proud and also great to discuss a minute along with my papa strolling off the area," he said.Joe Origin of England. Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesEngland resumed 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 run of 3 single-figure scores given that doing well the injured Ben Stokes as England captain at the start of the series.But Pope, that before this suit had referred to the difficulties of stabilizing the task of captaincy along with his duty as a No. 3 batsman, gave his gate away on 17. Asitha Fernando lost short as well as Pope retreated, simply for his straight slash to take flight right to Prabath Jayasuriya at deeper point.Harry Brook was actually lost on 9 when Nishan Madushka dropped a routine catch adhering to a top-edged slog sweep left-arm spinner Jayasuriya.Jayasuriya performed dismiss Creek for 37, along with Madushka creating indisputable at deeper mid-wicket, and also had Jamie Johnson lbw for 26 after the wicketkeeper missed a sweep.The serene Origin, nonetheless, twice brushed up and then reverse-swept Jayasuriya for three fours in an over.After Gus Atkinson, clean coming from his initial top-notch century of 118 in the 1st innings, and Matthew Potts both joined quick progression, Root-- after that 88 certainly not out-- risked losing companions before he reached three figures.But Olly Rock conducted company, with a happy Origin heading to his hundred when he cut Lahiru Kumara for a tenth four before he holed out off the paceman.England's Joe Root is taken advantage of by his daddy Matt. Picture through Glyn KIRK/ AFPSource: AFP" He is actually pretty merely England's greatest, and it is actually dead-on that he ought to have this file, on his own," Chef, that was actually England's captain in each of Root's first 53 Examinations, claimed on comments for the BBC's Test Suit Unique." Take it in, Joe. Our experts are enjoying a brilliant." I do not assume there is actually a batsman that I can don't forget viewing action (that portions) the sense of certainty about scoring runs that Joe Root produces. I phoned it when he got on around 6 today, that he was going to receive one hundred. I recognize he remains in terrific kind, but it's simply a delight to check out an expert, an artisan at the workplace." That left behind Sri Lanka requiring to bring in record of their own, along with the highest possible fourth-innings tot to win a suit in 147 years of Test history the West Indies' 7-418 versus Australia at St John's in 2002/03. The matching document at God's is actually the West Indies' 1-344 versus England in 1984. Although the floodlights got on, Pope set up frontline rewriter Shoaib Bashir and Root's part time off-breaks in a proposal to quit the match being actually halted for negative light.But the umpires did let England's quicks bowl as Atkinson possessed Madushka (13) outlining to Root before the injury-plagued Stone, in his 1st Exam for 3 years, removed Pathum Nissanka (14) in identical manner.