West Indian cricketing legend Brian Lara has earmarked two Indian batters who he believes can break his record of the largest score in red-ball cricket.
Arguably the batter with the highest pea of all time, Brian Charles Lara has two of the most impressive records not only in red-ball cricket but in the whole sport in general. He is the only batter in the centuries-long history of cricket to have scored 400 runs in a Test match, doing so unbeaten against England in 2004.
His other record, which might be even more impressive, is his unbeaten inning of 501 for Warwickshire against Durham in county cricket in 1994, which is the largest individual score in first-class cricket ever.
In a recent interview with the Daily Mail, Lara reckoned that with the number of aggressive batters playing Test cricket today, his record is bound to be broken by some in the future.
Brian Lara Names Players Who Can Break His Record
While giving out names as to who can cross the legendary 400 run mark in Test cricket, the Trinidadian named English batters Zak Crawley and Harry Brook. He then went on to name Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill as two names who might just break the record too, saying:
“How many aggressive players do you have playing today? Especially in the England team. Zak Crawley and Harry Brook. Maybe on the Indian team? Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill. If they find the right situation, the records could be broken—both of them.”
Before coming to the topic of the players who can break his records in the future, Brian Lara explained how only an aggressive player can break such records.
Talking about the record before his legendary inning in 2004, Lara acknowledged how legendary all-rounder Sir Garfield Sobers made an unbeaten 365 against Pakistan all the way back in 1958. This record, despite several aggressive players in the 1970s and 80s, was not broken until Matthew Hayden’s iconic knock of 380 runs at Perth against Zimbabwe in 2003.”I was always sort of puzzled that Sir Garfield Sobers’ record wasn’t broken in the 1970s and 80s when you had the aggression of Gordon Greenidge and Viv Richards. There were players in my time who challenged or at least went past the 300 mark: Virender Sehwag, Chris Gayle, Inzamam-ul-Haq, and Sanath Jayasuriya. They were pretty much aggressive players,” explained Lara.
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Only two Indians have scored a triple century in Tests for India, those being Virender Sehwag and Karun Nair. Sehwag crossed the storied milestone twice in his career.
Yasahsvi Jaiswal, who is one of the batters Brian Lara believes might break his record one day, already has two double-hundreds in his young Test career, scoring them in consecutive Tests against England in February 2024.
As for the most recent triple-century scored in Test cricket, it was David Warner who scored an unbeaten 335 against Pakistan in Adelaide in 2019 before captain Tim Paine declared the innings.
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