Cricket-Mulder stood down his chase because Lara deserves batting record

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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.

Mulder was 367 not out at lunch on the second day of the second test at the Queens SportsClub on Monday when he made the surprise call not to continue batting, passing up the opportunity to set a unique cricketing milestone.