Top 5 Test match centuries from Brian Lara

#4 226 vs Australia at Adelaide Oval (2005)

Shane Warne congratulated Brian Lara after the latter scored a magnificent double century at Adelaide

Opting to bat, the visitors were in early trouble as a fiery spell by Brett Lee reduced them to 53/3. In came Brian Lara and the whole scenario of the match changed dramatically. The southpaw started belting the Aussie bowlers all round the park and scored more than 50% of the team’s run. It was a brilliant innings under the circumstances when the second highest score in the team was 35. The visitors were eventually bowled out for 405.

Michael Hussey scored a fine century and Justin Langer missed out on a hundred by a solitary run as the hosts took a slender lead of 23 in their 1st innings.

The batting performance by the visitors in the 2nd essay was not up to standard as they were bowled out for 204. Shane Warne and Brett Lee were the wrecker in chief picking up 6 and 4 wickets respectively.

Australia chased down the target of 182 with a relative comfort with Mathew Hayden chipping in with a fluent 87.