Former England captain Michael Atherton recalled that Brian Lara predicted emerging batters Yashasvi Jaiswal and Harry Brook to breach his iconic 400-run record in Test cricket.

South Africa captain Wiaan Mulder declared on himself this morning, 33 runs shy of Brian Lara ’s record for the highest individual score in a Test innings. Captaining South Africa for the first time as they faced Zimbabwe, he was 367 not out at lunch in the second day of the second Test.

Wiaan Mulder has sacrificed a shot at one of cricket’s most hallowed records to start mopping up Zimbabwe in the second test in Bulawayo