Legendary batsman Brian Lara said that he wanted Australian opener David Warner to try and break his world record Test score of 400, that he got against England in 2004. Warner was batting on 335 in Australia’s second Test against Pakistan, when captain Tim Paine decided to declare. Paine waited for Warner to cross the 334-run mark – the highest scores of former Australia captains Don Bradman and Mark Taylor – before calling the batsmen back to the pavilion. But Lara said that he wanted Warner to have a go at his record, saying that “records are meant to be broken”.
“After passing Sir Donald Bradman I would have loved to see him race towards me,” Lara was quoted as saying by News Corp.
Being here (in Adelaide) I would have loved to see it. Even if they say ‘hey David, you have got 12 overs, see if you could do it by tea time’ … it would have been great,” he said, adding that “they were justified by picking up six wickets last night and you can see today things are slower so the declaration came at the right time.”
“I was getting dressed to come back near the end of his innings. I was listening to commentators say whether he would have a go at Matthew Hayden’s 380 but I felt if he got to 381 he would have to have a go at my record,” the flamboyant left-hander said.
