'Have A Number For You To Call': Brian Lara Recalls When He Was Told Matthew Hayden Has Broken His Record
West Indies legend Brian Lara recalls the time when he learnt about Matthew Hayden going past his record of 375 as Test cricket's highest individual score.
West Indies legend Brian Lara shared an amusing story from the time Australian great Matthew Hayden broke his then record for the highest individual Test score.
Appearing on The Overlap YouTube show, Lara revealed he immediately spoke to Hayden after his manager informed him that the aggressive left-hander had gone past him during the 2003 Perth Test against Zimbabwe.
Hayden went on to produce a marathon innings of 380 versus the hapless tourists at the start of the 2003-04 Australian summer and went past Lara's incredible 375 made in the 1994 Antigua Test against his favourite opposition, England.
Previously, Sir Garfield Sobers had kept Test cricket's highest ever individual score, making an unbeaten 365 versus Pakistan in Jamaica in 1958. Hayden surpassing Lara made it the first instance in over 45 years that a non-West Indian held the record.
'It was at night. I was asleep in Jamaica. My agent, lawyer, called me. He's in London. He said, 'I have a number for you to call.' I said, 'Why?' Lara recalled the moment he learnt about Hayden's milestone. 'Because I think he did a lot on that day. So he might have gone to sleep at one something and then he scored a couple of hundreds on that day. He said, I have a number for you to call. The private dressing room. I said, 'Why?' He said, 'someone just broke your record'."
'So I called the dressing room. It was very noisy, very loud. I got to Matthew. Congratulated him. But, you know, funny enough, I felt that for those 10 years, 9-year period, I had a lot of stress because of those two records," he added.
As it turned out, six months after Hayden overtook him, Lara reclaimed Test cricket's pinnacle by scoring 400*.
Taking on the visiting Englishmen during their 2004 trip, the charismatic left-hander stunned world cricket with his amazing appetite for runs by doing what no one man had ever achieved. His unbeaten innings helped West Indies post a mammoth 751/5 declared at St John's against England before the match ended in a draw.
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