New Delhi, July 9 -- Former West Indies captain Chris Gayle felt 'South Africa's stand-in captain Wiaan Mulder 'panicked and made blunder, straight up' for not going after Brian Lara's record of the highest individual Test score earlier this week, when he declared on 367 not out against Zimbabwe.

After toppling a handful of records, Mulder stood on the cusp of surpassing Lara's milestone of smashing 400 in a Test innings.

He returned unbeaten on 367(334), 33 runs short of levelling Lara's record after lunch was called. However, to everyone's surprise, South Africa declared its innings on 626/5 on Day 2 of the second Test.

"If I could get the chance to get 400, I would get 400. That doesn't happen often. You don't know when you're going...