Lara didn't hesitate to break Sir Gary's 365

In reply to Jumpstart

Dude, STFU
Are you saying an athlete cannot work on his flaws?
Dude, get out of T&T.
You're stuck watching your homies play club white-ball cricket.

In reply to Curtis


Nobody spoke to your central point head on. Predictably tits jumpstart and musician side step your posit. The rest appear to be drones and enablers of the tits.

Your query remains unanswered. Why didn't Lara not stop short of Sir Gary's record for reasons similar to Mulder's for not breaking his.

yardies say the world nuh level

In reply to openning


of course he can. he has not. and he has not had to do that in england because that aspect of his game has not been tested

In reply to Castled


records are meant to be broken. lara's legacy would have diminished if wiaan had made an attempt at the record and succeeded. the man is the author of 4 or 5 of the top 20 innings of all time(not according to me, check Masterly Batting, Top 50 test performances by espn cricinfo and the Wisden 100 best innings, none of his contemporaries have any on that cricinfo list:not tendulkar, kallis, sanga, dravid, inzimam).

In reply to Walco

Can you imagine having a child and thinking he/she is perfect and blaming others when that child gets into trouble?
That the prof when defending BCL.
Records are there to be broken, I don't care who breaks them.
BCL has no control over who should break his records.

In reply to Jumpstart


But Jumpy, all triple centuries have been scored on roads, no?

In reply to Walco

barry richards didn't score a triple century against Dennis Lillee at the WACA? The WACA is/was a road?

In reply to Castled

Castled are you saying I didn't provide any clear answers? Are answers enablers?

In reply to Jumpstart

Any wicket can be a road based on how it's prepared. But you get my point. Doubles and triples are rarely scored on difficult pitches or in difficult conditions.

In reply to Walco


Dude Brian Lara scored a double century at the Wanderers, one of the grounds that inspired the creation of helmets. The wicket Lara scored the 213 on, Sabina Park, Australia only scored 256 in their first innings, and they scored even less on the second turn, making only 177. Graeme smith scored 259 on the same wicket that makhaya ntini had cleaned up england for 177. that's not correct. Its not a road because someone has mastered the conditions. Steve waugh up to now says that kensington oval in 1999 was a road, despite the fact that of both completed 2nd innings, Lara was the only man to score above 40 and Australia weren't even trying to score quickly in the second innings of that test when they got cleaned up by walsh for 146...in fact their scoring rate was less than 3 runs per over. As i said, just because one man has mastered the conditions does not mean the wicket is flat or favors batting

In reply to Jumpstart


How does all of what you just said detract from my original statement?

In reply to Walco

i was responding to this statement genius

In reply to Walco

just admit when you've lost nah.....or go and do an ounce of research before you make sweeping statements

In reply to imusic



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In reply to Jumpstart

Here I was thinking I was engaged in polite conversation with an adult, only to find out I was in a win-loss competition with someone with the emotional maturity of child. By the way, I was at the Wanderers in 2023 and witnessed in person more than 500 runs scored in a T20I. And 600+ has been scored at that venue in test matches on multiple occasions, all of which reinforces the point that any wicket can be prepared as a road. You point to exceptions where batsmen may have scored heavily in difficult conditions as if that is the rule

In reply to Walco

Ha. As if people prepare bowling wickets for t20s. The last ground that did that, , BCL academy, was roundly criticized for preparing a bowler’s wicket for the Wt20 semis. Come on chief, let’s be real. A test wanderers pitch and a t20 wanderers pitch clearly are not the same. the last wanderers pitch where india and SA played a test, nobody got above 250. South africa got 561 in that wanderers test in 2003....and then you look at the WI bowling attack, exclusive of fidel edwards who was injured early in the SA innings: colleymore, drakes, ganga, sarwan, wavell hinds and merv dillon. Take lara's 202 out of the WI total and the west indies only make 208. clearly it WAS NOT a batting wicket. one of the bowling attacks was rubbish and one man from the opposition mastered the conditions. The attack for WI for that series was so poor, they only once conceded less than 300 and that was because SA were setting a target and they declared at 264-4. twice they conceded more than 500 and twice they conceded more than 600.