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Joe Root scored his 34th Test hundred on Saturday (31 August) to go past Alastair Cook and become England's leading century-maker among English Batsman.
However another session dominated by the hosts on the third day, England were bowled out for 251, setting Sri Lanka 483 runs to win the Lord's Test and level the series.
With what was his fastest Test hundred (111 balls), Root climbed to joint-sixth on the all-time list of centurions in Test cricket and now sits at par with the likes of Sunil Gavaskar, Brian Lara, Younis Khan and Mahela Jayawardene.
Root, meanwhile, snuck runs from under Sri Lanka's nose en route to his milestone hundred and got there with a stylish punch through covers. It was also Root's 50th international hundred and his seventh century at Lord's, the most by an England batter at a venue.
England's innings came to a close when Root was caught off a short ball in the deep but he had done enough to put England in pole position to take a 2-0 lead in the series.
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