India, July 7 -- For the last 21 years, the record of the highest individual score in Test cricket history has stood with one man. The inimitable Brian Lara, the only man to score a quadruple-century, when he blazed his way to a historic 400* against England in Antigua.

South Africa's Wiaan Mulder, in his first match as captain of his nation's Test side, threatened to make that record his own as he put Zimbabwe to the sword at Bulawayo's Queen Sports Club. But with lunch called on day two, a declaration emerged from the Proteas dressing room, with Mulder happy to settle for a still formidable score of 367*, just 33 short of Lara.

Mulder, batting at number three, did the bulk of the scoring for the Proteas on day one of this second Test....