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Lara in the limelight again

Rajneesh Gupta | June 07, 2005

Even as Brian Lara got out for a 'duck' in the second innings of the Kingston Test against Pakistan, his first innings heroics were enough to give him a world record.

The West Indies batsman has now aggregated 6,006 runs in home matches -- the highest aggregate for any batsman in Test cricket.

Lara surpassed England's Graham Gooch's tally of 5,917 runs. Interestingly, he moved ahead of Gooch in 13 Tests and 29 innings fewer than him.

Leading run-scorers in home Test matches:
RunsBatsmanForTestsInnsAve.Hs100s
6006BC LaraWI6110261.91400*16
5917GA GoochEng7413146.2333315
5743AR BorderAus8614545.9420513
5710SR WaughAus8914047.5817015
5067SM GavaskarInd6510850.17236*16

During the West Indies' first innings of the Kingston Test, Lara also completed 1,000 runs in the Test matches played at the ground. His aggregate at the ground at the end of first innings reads: 1,075 runs in 17 innings, at an average of 67.18.

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Lara has now aggregated 1,000 runs on three different grounds. Others are: St.John's (1,632 runs) and Bridgetown (1,339 runs).

Lara thus became only the fifth batsman after Australia's Greg Chappell, Allan Border, Steve Waugh and Pakistan's Javed Miandad to aggregate 1,000 runs at three different grounds.

It is worth mentioning that Lara has aggregated 986 runs at Port-of-Spain and is all set to soon become the first batsman ever to aggregate 1,000 runs at four grounds.

The 153 in the Kingston Test was the 17th score of 150-plus or more for him. He is now just one short of equalling Don Bradman's world record tally of 18.

Most 150s in Test cricket
18Don BradmanAus
17Brian LaraWI
15Sachin TendulkarInd
14Steve WaughAus
12Sunil GavaskarInd



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Sub: LARA The World's Greatest

Hi Mr. Brian Lara.... Advanced congratulations that you will be the fastest to reach 11000/- test runs ... and most probably will remain as the ...


Posted by Pavan Kumar





Sub: lara is classy

lara's class is way above most of the other batsmen in the world today. only people like sachin, sehwag, gilcrist fall in the same league. ...


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Sub: kudos.....

wow! magnificient, fabulous, tremendous i always held LARA is the contmprry best, just next to the DON although am indian, and love sachin, facts are ...


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Sub: Is Lara a match winner?

In the first test, WI beat pak by 276 runs. Lara scored a total of 178 runs in that match. WI would have won even ...


Posted by Ananth





Sub: Lara is nearing retirement

West Indies need to start thinking beyond Lara. One man holding all the records does a country no good. Lara has twice scored world record ...


Posted by Prabudha




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