Joe Root set an England record of 34 Test centuries when, for the second time in the match, he reached three figures in the second Test against Sri Lanka at Lord's as the hosts set the Islanders a 483-run target to win.
England were dismissed for 251 in their second innings.
Joe Root was the hosts' last man out for 103 on the third day. The star batsman set a new England record of 34 Test centuries after making 143 in a first-innings total of 427.
No side have made more to win in the fourth innings of any Test than the West Indies' 418-7 against Australia at St John's in 2002/03, with the corresponding Lord's record the West Indies' 344-1 (needing 342) against England in 1984.
England are bidding for an unassailable 2-0 lead in this three-match series after their five-wicket win in the first Test against Sri Lanka a Old Trafford last week.
Root, who made 143 in the first innings to move level with the previous England record of 33 hundreds held by the retired Alastair Cook, went to a century on Saturday's third day when he cut Lahiru Kumara for the 10th four off 111 balls faced.
It meant he surpassed his fellow former England captain's mark in what was Root's 145th Test compared to Cook's career tally of 161 matches.
Root's seventh Test hundred at Lord's also gave him sole possession of the record for the most Test centuries at the 'Home of Cricket' he had shared with the England duo of Graham Gooch and Michael Vaughan, who both managed six apiece.
In the process, Root became the fourth batsman to have scored hundreds in both innings of a Test at Lord's, joining the West Indies' George Headley (1939), Gooch (1990) and Vaughan (2004).
Gooch's combined tally of 456 runs against India at Lord's in 1990, comprising innings of 333 and 123, remains a record for the most runs scored by a single batsman in any Test.
Root's latest century also moved him into joint-sixth place in an all-time list of Test century-makers headed by India great Sachin Tendulkar, who scored 51 hundreds in 200 Tests from 1989-2013.
The 33-year-old Root is the only batsman in this group who is still an active Test cricketer.
Most Test hundreds (number of hundreds, matches, player, team (s), span):
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