No one cares about this Sri Lanka Pakistan test match.
Most of us thought it had already ended, but when a batsman is 300* overnight people start to take notice again.
Not because the game has suddenly become interesting, but because inside every cricket fan is a statistical pervert.
And the top score in test cricket is like the ultimate festish item.
We all want to see.
And all batsmen want to own it.
The chances are Younis will go out, and we will all start watching test matches where results might actually happen.
But if he doesn’t, and he ends up owning the sexiest pair of panties in the cricketing universe, then it opens up a whole can of worms.
Because as we all know, Brian Lara was happy to go through life with 375 on his tomb stone, until Matthew Hayden took his number away.
Then Lara snatched it back.
Now, incase you didn’t know, Lara has retired.
But with an Ego like that, losing a record that fetishisied (no, not a word), we can only hope Lara comes back out of a retirement to take the record with him one more time.
Wouldn’t that be romantic, especially if he came back and did it against Bangladesh.
Would be like Ali beating Spinks.
Lol, no Lara should come back in the last test against England and get his record back. Now that would be romantic.
I was going to say that it’d be romantic if it’s against England, but Aashrey beat me to it!
Poms 4 sure !! :D but even Lara beating Lara/Younis to another 400+ mamoth looks so uncertain… But if wishes were to come true… be it the Poms! Once more pleeeeease !!
Actually it should come against Australia in Australia, where Lara comes out of retirement for one last shot at Glory, gets the record in the last test, WI rides on the 459 runs he scores and the shock series loss at home forces Ricky Ponting into retirement and into hiding for decades.
And there he goes
at least Lara didn’t take 35 balls to go from 302 to 306 !
Pfft 313 is that all! Australians have been hitting higher scores than that since 1930
Meanwhile, there’s a decent chance of a result, which would be stunning.
Titmus, they don’t play timeless tests anymore.