India, July 7 -- Wiaan Mulder stood on the cusp of history. When Lunch on Day 2 of the second Test between South Africa and Zimbabwe was called, the right-hander needed 34 more runs to break Brian Lara's record and become the highest individual scorer in the history of Test cricket. Looking at the rate at which the 27-year-old was scoring his runs, Mulder would have required just 5-6 overs to become the second batter in the history of the game to score 400 runs in a single Test innings.

However, Mulder decided to keep his team first as the Proteas stand-in captain decided to declare the innings with the team score being 626/5. The all-rounder remained unbeaten on 367 with the help of 49 fours and 4 sixes. The decision to declare is all t...