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Two more world records for Lara
Wisden CricInfo staff - December 3, 2001
Steven Lynch on the Colombo highlights
Monday, December 3, 2001
Brian Lara's 221, his fourth double-hundred for West Indies, is the highest score ever made in a Test in a losing cause. The previous best was Victor Trumper's 214 not out for Australia v South Africa at Adelaide in 1910-11.
Lara also scored a century in each innings of a Test for the first time. His match aggregate of 351 runs is the most for any batsman who finished on the losing side, beating Andy Flower's short-lived record of 341 (142 and 199 not out) for Zimbabwe against South Africa at Harare in 2001-02.
Chaminda Vaas's match figures of 14 for 191 were the second-best in any Test for Sri Lanka, after Muttiah Muralitharan's 16 for 220 against England at The Oval in 1998. Muralitharan (nine times) and Vaas (two) are the only bowlers to take ten wickets in a Test for Sri Lanka. Among fast bowlers only Imran Khan (14 for 116 for Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Lahore in 1981-82) has recorded better match figures in a Test anywhere on the Indian subcontinent.
Hashan Tillekeratne made his first double-century in Tests. He has been dismissed only once in his last six Test innings, during which time he has scored 549 runs.
Sri Lanka won all three Tests of a series for the first time. It was the fifth time in their last seven overseas series that West Indies have been whitewashed.
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