South Africa’s stand-in captain Vian Mulder played one of the biggest innings in Test history and remained unbeaten on 367 runs. But as soon as everyone felt that now he would break Brian Lara’s record of 400 runs, the team suddenly declared the innings. This decision shocked the cricket world and questions began to arise among the fans. Now the Mulder himself has broken the silence on this decision and has put his thinking in front of everyone.
On the second day of the second Test being played between South Africa and Zimbabwe on Monday in Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo, when the Vian Mulder 367* runs, everyone returned to the dressing room on lunch break and then the team declared the innings, everyone was surprised. From fans to veteran players, everyone had the same question, did Brian Lara miss out on breaking the 400 -run record.
Now Mulder himself has broken this silence. After the second day of the match, he clearly stated that he intentionally decided not to break Lara’s record. Mulder said, “To be honest, I had never dreamed of double century, Triple is far away. But it was my motive to bring the team to a strong position.”
The 27 -year -old all -rounder further said, “I felt that we had a lot of runs and we should have bowled now. Second, Lara is a veteran. He scored 400 runs against England. That record is his and should be the same. I had talked to coach Shukri Conrad and decided that the records of legends should be allowed to stay there.”
Talking about this match being played between South Africa and Zimbabwe, on the second day of the second Test, South Africa has completely dominated Zimbabwe on the second day of the second Test and the brilliant bowling of Debutant Puranen Subrane. South Africa declared their first innings at 626/5 on the second day and covered Zimbabwe for 170 runs. Debutant Purnelleen Sabraine took 4 wickets in Zimbabwe’s first innings. The Zimbabwe’s team scored 51/1 runs till the stumps and are still 405 runs behind.
