Laxman sets new record

KOLKATA, MARCH 14. The stylish V. V. S. Laxman today scripted history by becoming India's highest individual scorer in a Test innings, when he reached 237, 33 minutes after tea, in the second innings on the fourth day of the second cricket Test against Australia here today.

Laxman, who seems to have struck a purple patch in the match, surpassed the previous best of 236 scored by the little master Sunil Manohar Gavaskar against the West Indies in the sixth Test at Madras (now Chennai) in 1983-84 series, and was unbeaten on a monumental 275 at close of play.

The 26-year old Hyderabad batsman took a single to deep mid- wicket of part-time bowler Mathew Hayden to equal Gavaskar's 17- year-old record.

Two balls later, he pulled the same bowler to the on- side for another single to achieve the remarkable feat that came in 237 minutes of 370 balls, and was studded with 40 spectacularly executed hits to the fence.

- PTI

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