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Lara's feat difficult to beat: Ponting
SYDNEY,
APRIL 19.
Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting said on Monday that Brian Lara's 400 not out was unlikely to be beaten because few skippers would jeopardise a winning position by allowing one player to bat for so long.
Ponting said Australia's desire to secure victory as quickly as possible would make it difficult for any of the batsmen, himself included, to beat Lara's feat. ``It's hard to imagine an Australian player doing it; just because of the way we play our cricket. It's generally not the way we play,'' said Ponting. ``I've read some of the reports in the paper over the last couple of days about Lara's innings. Their whole first innings might have been geared around one individual performance and they could have let a Test match slip because of it.
``They ran out of time in the game — that's not the way the Australian team plays.'' Hayden's 380 against Zimbabwe in Perth last October took just over 10 hours in a match Australia won by an innings and 175 runs early on the fifth day. — AP
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