South African captain Wiaan Mulder says Brian Lara is a "legend" and the West Indian great keeping his world record Test score is "exactly the way it should be", after he declared on Wednesday unbeaten on 367. The Proteas all-rounder looked to be on the ...

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.

After declaring on himself with 33 runs remaining to tie the highest individual Test score, Mulder said Lara deserves to keep the milestone.