Pyari kt. First of all dont bring records in here. I can present more records of Lara than sachin in test cricket. Secondly you said about sachin taking wickets. But then even lara is no 2  or 3 in record number of catches in test cricket and sachin is far behind.

Just compare one on one century of Lara with tendulkar you will see a hugh daylight between the difference of innings. Tendulkar who is playing last test in Australia has made 153. But on the same ground Brain lara played his last test in Australia where he scored 216 run to break the record of Allan Border.

My rating of the batsman of this generation will  be ,

1. Lara

2. Ponting

3. Sachin

However, I strongly believe that by the time Ponting ends his career he may  have proved to be better batsman than Lara.