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Article: Lara carries his bat into history
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 7, 1994
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BRIAN LARA's incredible march through the pages of cricket's
record books took the brilliant West Indian batsman to new heights
of greatness on the Edgbaston Test ground in Birmingham yesterday
evening.
Only 49 days after compiling the world record Test match innings
of 375 against England in Antigua, Lara, 25, eclipsed the record of
Pakistan's Hanif Mohammad for the highest individual score at any
level of first class cricket, anywhere in the world. Hanif scored
499 for Karachi against Bahawalpur in Karachi in January 1959. His
line in Wisden is now displaced by Lara's 501 not out for
Warwickshire against Durham.
After almost eight hours at the crease, interrupted by a full
day's play lost ...