4. 213, WI vs. AUS, 1999
In 1999 at Kingston, Lara scored a splendid 213 runs off 344 balls in the 2nd test of Australia’s tour of WI. Before this test, when WI toured South Africa, WI faced a humiliating loss to the hosts and the whole team was reprimanded by their country people brutally for consistent defeats.
Because of such results, there were no high expectations from the team to the crowd. Hence every game to be played later was to fight for pride and to get back the confidence. In this test, Lara and Adams made major contributions of 213 and 94 runs respectively and helped WI to score 431 in the second innings of the test after Australia were bowled out for a low total of 256. WI won this match by 10 wickets and this win by a huge margin helped the Windies to gain the confidence back.
