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

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe (Reuters) -South Africa stand-in captain Wiaan Mulder felt he had no right to dislodge West Indies great Brian Lara from the summit of highest test innings scores and decided to declare his team's innings against Zimbabwe when he was 34 runs short of breaking the record.

Wiaan Mulder had a shot at overhauling Brian Lara 's world-record 400* when he went to lunch at 367* on day two of the second Test against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo. Mulder, the stand-in captain, though, declared the innings at the break, and stopped short of the record because he felt "Lara keeping that record is exactly the way it should be".