Wiaan Mulder declared the innings while remaining unbeaten on 367, Brian Lara’s record was not broken; reminded of the 21-year-old Dravid and Tendulkar incident
Wiaan Mulder Declared Innings Avoid Breaking Brian Lara Record: South Africa is playing the second match of the two-match Test series in Bulawayo on the WTC champion Zimbabwe tour, in which the team scored a huge score of 626/5 while batting first. The most important contribution in taking the team to this big score was of captain Wiaan Mulder, who created history on his captaincy debut by scoring the second fastest triple century in Test cricket. It was expected that Mulder would also break the record of the biggest innings in Test today i.e. Brian Lara’s 400* runs, but he did not do so and declared the innings after lunch.
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Brian Lara’s record of the biggest innings in Test was saved from being broken
Wiaan Mulder played a brilliant century in the first Test against Zimbabwe. After this, in the second match, he got the chance to captain as Keshav Maharaj was ruled out due to injury. Mulder made his first test as captain very special and he scored a double century on the first day of the ongoing test match in Bulawayo.
On the second day also Mulder continued his excellent batting and completed his triple century in 297 balls. At lunch time Mulder was unbeaten on 367 runs and it seemed that he was targeting Brian Lara’s record of scoring the most runs in an innings but then he declared the innings. In this way Mulder did not try to break Lara’s record.
Reminded fans of the 21-year-old story of Dravid and Tendulkar
The way Wiaan Mulder declared the innings despite being close to the milestone, reminded fans of the 21-year-old story of Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar. In the 2004 Pakistan tour, during the test played in Multan, India’s captain Dravid declared the innings when Tendulkar was unbeaten on 194. It was Team India’s first innings in the match but Dravid did not wait for Sachin to complete his milestone. It is said that due to this reason, Sachin was also angry with Dravid for some time.
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