Gus Atkinson continued his Lord's love affair by taking five wickets as England thrashed Sri Lanka by 190 runs in the second Test on Sunday to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in a three-match series.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Sri Lanka, set what would have been a new Test record fourth-innings winning total of 483, were dismissed for 292 after tea on the fourth day despite fifties from Dinesh Chandimal (58), Dimuth Karunaratne (55) and captain Dhananjaya de Silva (50).<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Fast bowler Atkinson, who scored his maiden first-class hundred in England's first-innings 427, led the attack with 5-62.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Player-of-the-match Atkinson secured a fifth mention on the dressing room honours boards in just his second Test at Lord's after taking 12 wickets on England debut against the West Indies in July.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
He also became just the third England cricketer after Tony Greig and Ian Botham to score a century and take five wickets in an innings of the same Test.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Atkinson followed India's Vinoo Mankad (against England in 1952) and Botham (against Pakistan in 1978) as the only men to have achieved that double at Lord's.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The 26-year-old Surrey paceman's latest impressive return helped England seal a seventh successive win over Sri Lanka following their five-wicket success in last week's first Test at Old Trafford.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"To get on both honours boards is incredible," Atkinson told Sky Sports. "It will take a while to sink in."<\/p>\r\n\r\n
This game was also a personal triumph for Joe Root.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
For the first time in 145 matches at this level, Root made hundreds in both innings -- 143 and 103 -- to set a new record of 34 Test centuries by an England batsman.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Sri Lanka have little time to regroup before the third Test at The Oval starts on Friday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
De Silva admitted he had erred in opting to field on a good batting pitch after winning the toss.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"Definitely. I got it wrong," he told the BBC, before adding: "We have got to improve on the first innings whether we bat or bowl first, that's what I will be telling my boys is that we've got to start better."<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Sri Lanka resumed Sunday on 53-2, with the odds stacked against them given the highest winning fourth-innings total in any Test is the West Indies' 418-7 against Australia at St John's in 2002\/03.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
But Root -- who on Saturday had taken his 200th Test catch -- reprieved Karunaratne when dropping a tough one-handed slip chance from the opener's edged cut off Atkinson.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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\r\nKarunaratne, 36, drove and pulled Atkinson for fours off successive deliveries on his way to a 98-ball fifty including seven boundaries.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The left-hander, however, was out shortly before lunch when injury-plagued fast bowler Olly Stone, in his first Test for three years, produced a rising 87 mph (140 kmh) delivery that Karunaratne could only glove down the legside to wicketkeeper Jamie Smith.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Chandimal counter-attacked early in the afternoon on his way to a dashing 42-ball fifty including 40 runs in boundaries before Atkinson had him caught at short leg off bat and pad.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Kamindu Mendis, boasting a colossal Test batting average of 92 following his third hundred in four Tests at Old Trafford, had made 74 in Sri Lanka's meagre first-innings 196.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
But the 25-year-old left-hander, again batting low down the order, fell for just four on Sunday when caught in the slips off Atkinson.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Mendis's exit left Sri Lanka, who have now not won any of their nine Tests at Lord's, slipping towards defeat at 200-7.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
De Silva kept England waiting before playing on to Atkinson, who then had Milan Rathnayake caught behind to complete his five-wicket haul.<\/p>\r\n\r\n