There are very few times when a player scores double century in a Test match and the team loses. Even after hitting a century in both innings, there are times in decades when the team has to face defeat, but there has been only one time in the history of Test cricket more than 140 years when a player has the same In the Test match, a double century and a hundred were scored and the team had to face defeat.
When a player is happy after scoring a double century and a century in the same Test match, but when the result of that match does not come in favour of the team then it is very disappointing that such big innings did not work. Could It is perhaps unfortunate that this has happened to West Indies great Brian Lara when he hit a double century in the first innings of a Test match and a century in the second innings, but the team had to lose.
This was the first time in the history of Test cricket in the year 2001 when Brian Lara scored a double century in the first innings against Sri Lankan team at Colombo ground and scored a century in the second innings and the team had to face a crushing defeat by 10 wickets. Thus Brian Lara is the only unfortunate player in the world, whose double century and century went poorly in a single match. Usually, this does not happen in Test cricket, but it has become possible.
In fact, in the month of November in 2001, West Indies faced Sri Lanka, in which the then West Indies captain Karl Hooper won the toss and elected to bat first and the Caribbean team scored 390 runs, out of which Brian Lara was 221 runs alone. After this, the Sri Lankan team scored 627 runs losing 9 wickets and declared the innings. After this, the West Indies team came back to bat again and was piled on 262 runs.
In the second innings, 130 runs came off the bat of Brian Lara. At the same time, Sri Lanka had a target of 26 runs, which the hosts achieved without losing wickets. Brian Lara was named Player of the Match for this match, but it could not be happier, as the team lost. At the same time, Hassan Tillakaratne hit a double century for Sri Lanka in the second innings, which proved to be the foundation of victory for the team.
