On today in 2004, legendary West Indies cricketer Brian Lara scored an unbeaten 400 towards a formidable English aspect to set the world document for the very best particular person rating in an innings in Test cricket, surpassing Australian batsman Matthew Hayden’s 380 towards Zimbabwe.
Hayden had damaged Lara’s earlier document of 375 runs (1994) simply six months in the past.
Lara, who made his Test debut in 1990, additionally holds the document of highest rating in first-class cricket with an unbeaten 501.
Lara beforehand mentioned he acquired unhappy when Australia’s David Warner couldn’t break his document in the course of the second Test towards Pakistan in Adelaide in 2019. Warner performed an unbeaten knock of 335 runs earlier than captain Tim Paine declared the innings on Day 2.
“I actually felt it was kind of destiny, being in Adelaide at the same time something like that was about to unfold. I felt that he should have been given an opportunity to go after it,” Lara informed a information company in an interview.
“Obviously, Australia was going to declare but it felt like give him another five or 10 overs, maybe even tell him because he is a very good Twenty20 batsman,” Lara added.
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