Garfield Robinson says that Brian Lara’s huge innings of 400 against England in 2004 was not his finest hour

In October 2003, Australia’s Matthew Hayden smashed a weak Zimbabwe bowling attack to all parts of the Western Australia Cricket Association ground in Perth for 380 runs. With that innings the Australian opener erased Brian Lara’s name as the owner of Test cricket’s highest score and replaced it with his own.
By then, the Trinidadian was approaching his mid-30s and not many thought him still capable of summoning the stamina for the kind of marathon innings it ...