Brian Lara
On April 12, 2004 at St John's, Antigua covering Brian Lara made the highest ever Test score of 400 not out, against England, just six months after his mark was usurped by Australia's Matthew Hayden.With the series already won by the tourists he came in after an hour on the first morning and, more than two days later, he was still there for the declaration with the home side on 751-5.
What sticks in the memory is the clinical way he went about bettering his previous highest score there of 375, which had been made against the same opposition.
On a featherbed wicket he worked the unfortunate Gareth Batty at will, and barely an over seemed to go by without him getting a boundary and then a single.
That occasion brought the whole of the Caribbean together.
