A fabulous innings from Brian Lara is at an end. It's almost certainly his last Test match in Australia, which makes it a pity for Melbourne and Sydney's sake.
Lara now has 11,146 runs in Test matches for the West Indies. Let's hope he can score at least 29 in the second innings to pass Allan Border's total in Test matches for Australia, and put the world record beyond dispute.
McGrath bowls around the wicket to Lara. A short ball, waist-high, angled across the left-handed batsman, Lara exposes his leg stump as he pulls to deep backward square for a single. He is 214 not out. The crowd rises to give Lara a standing ovation. Lara waves his bat in the air, the Australian players come over to congratulate him. He has passed Allan Border to become the highest run-scorer in Test cricket.
Supposedly.
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That was a fantastic innings by Brian Lara at the Adelaide Oval yesterday. Overnight, he is 202 not out in a West Indian total of 352 for 7. This morning, the papers are reporting that he needs twelve more runs to overhaul Allan Border's career aggregate of 11174. But thanks to the ICC, there will be some nagging doubt over the moment when he becomes the leading Test run-scorer of all time.
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