The Return of The King

Brian Charles Lara is back at the top with a grand 400, wrenching his record back from Mathew Hayden. Somehow I was never really comfortable with Hayden holding the record for the highest Test innings score. Agreed, he plays a wide range of strokes with high strike rate, but he always looks like a savage barbarian out to get the bowlers, beating the hell out of them with his club. He overawes his opponents with his height and bulk of his body rather than the finesse or elegance of his much smaller counterparts like Lara or Sachin. Any bets on how long the 200 barrier in the ODI arena is going to stand?