CHECK THIS: Did Lara Do A Selfish Thing While Scoring 400* ?

On day 3 at Lunch of that test match, the West Indies were 734/5 with Lara on 390* having already broken Hayden's 380 record and Jacobs on 100*. But Lara came out to bat after lunch and his sole purpose was to push his score to 400*.


QUESTION:

* Was Lara being selfish ? Was he just looking out for himself and personal glory, getting to 400 ?

* Remember, at Lunch Lara was on 390*---he had already broken Hayden's 380 record.

* The only reason Lara came out to bat after lunch with the WI on 734/5 was personal glory---400*

* Click on the link for the scorecard and match notes:


www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/64080.html

Rev

* So Lara came out to bat after lunch on day 3 when the WI were already 734/5

* But Ramdin declared at 484/7 one hour into day 3---he couldn't give Shiv an additional 15 minutes he needed to make his hundred.

* And remember, the WI won the test with 2 sessions to spare.

* GOOD TO SEE RAMDIN FAIL WITH THE BAT THIS SERIES----5 and DUCK.

* If Ramdin was captain no way Lara would have ever reached the historic 400 *

Rev

no one is at war with you as far as I see Rev

I was terrorising you googs and ketchim on the strike rate.  I mean you guys are ripe for the picking with allyuh faith and belief.  that is what it is with you guys on Shive..nothing but religion. 

I mean anyone can pull allyuh legs all day long with this, have allyuh explaining and justifying and accusing people of all manner of jealousy and hate all day long, 7 days a week, all freaking year long.  that is the way the religious behave in defense of their faith.

I am not in any war with you at least.  I am happy for Shive and it is a west indian achievement regardless of you 3 trying to coop it for allyuhselves and likely for Indian people alone.  IT IS WEST INDIAN WHETHER ALLYUH LIKE IT OR NOT  SO THERE..ALLYUH 3 IMPSE ALLYUH!

ALLYUH MAKING THIS THING A BAD TIME WHEN TI SHUD BE A HAPPY ONE. I KNOW WEST INDIAN CRICKET FOR ALL MY LIFE..I KNOW WEST INDIANS WHEN IT COMES TO CRICKET..AND FOR WEST INDIAN BLACK PEOPLE THERE IS NO RACE WHEN IT COMES TO CRICKET.  THERE ARE NO BLACK HATERS OF SHIVE PERIOD..THERE IS NONE FOR ANY INDO CRICKETER.

now!  there may be Indo haters of African cricketers but I can assure you there are none on our side.  it is all in allyuh imagination.  it is how allyuh stop..so allyuh expects others to be the same and scared dat we do not like shive.  well we/they aren't..and everybody love Shive.  so stop allyuh paranoia

the problem is you 3  Rev, Googs and Ketchim

your tongue better be firmly placed between your cheek and gum relative to this post. you have to be playing with words here to get man riled

Perfectly said but particularly what I have underlined.

"I was terrorising you googs and ketchim on the strike rate."

And people were only complaining about his strike rate in ONE INNINGS of ONE MATCH and RIGHTFULLY SO. Nobody cares about his strike rate in any of these other innings because the match requirements are different.

Absolutely correct. Any reasonable, rational person would accept the observation as true instead of these plethora of duplicate threads regurgitating the same bile which has been quite pointless.

Instead of a sensible retort to real observations,  all of this has been concocted into some ethnic and personal vendetta and that is pure paranoia.

Whilst it is reasonable to have an opinion and a right to express such, I have hardly, if ever, experienced such narrowmindedness and bigotry.

A plethora of duplicated and senseless threads churning out the same repetative garbage akin to neurosis.

How is that topics like these go "off topic" and drift away from main context.
Pls guys...I joined here because i loved you all,the bond you were all having..
Pls don't make people regret joining here.Why spread hate..??


I really was upset to read through the comments.Let us not spread hate..!!.We hold the responsibility to conduct ourself good in front of new members.
it is just a game and what's the big fight all abt..??

PAGING MAPOUI:

* Give me a straightforward answer, no convoluted obfuscation. Was the great Lara being selfish when he chose to continue batting after lunch on day 3 of that test when he was on 390* and had already broken Hayden's 380 record ? He came out after lunch on day 3 just to make the 10 runs needed for 400*.

Rev

yes he did..acc to me,but it was justifiable since that landmark was the one that redefined him.It was an elusive test score and until now it has been beaten..and moreover..the gap was just 10 runs.
I would say though he was greedy,his action was justifiable..
honestly..400* looks much better than 390*