Brian Lara claimed another piece of history when he hit an unbeaten 313 to become only the second player to score two Test triple hundreds as the West Indies piled up 595 for five in their first innings in the fourth and final Test against England...
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Playing his 104th Test, the gifted left-hander smashed 34 fours and three sixes from more than 10 hours of batting that underlined West Indies' best batting performance in the series.
Lara reached his milestone when he played a delivery from Gareth Batty through backward point for a single.
It was Lara's second triple hundred at this ground following his 375 against the same opponents 10 years earlier that stood as the individual batting world record until Australia's Matthew Hayden erased it against Zimbabwe last year.
Ironically, Sir Don Bradman, the late, great, former Australia captain, the only other Test batsman with two Test triple hundreds, also scored both his milestones against England, 334 and 304 both at Leeds in 1930 and 1934 respectively.
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