Quamire. You cant expect lara to score so many tons when he bats so lower down the order. But he still managed to maintain the average. And tell me how many century have sachin scored batting at number 4, 5 , 6 in one day matches. 

Secondly , Wisden didnt forget 155* at chennai because it came under a weak attack . Australia played with weakest attack probably in their history.  Playing only with one world class bowler in shane warne playing with an injured shoulders. Who were other blowers. NO there wasnt mcgrath, nor gillespie nor fleming.  Here are the list of the bowlers Michael kasprowicz, paul raiffel, Gavin robertson ,  Greg blewett, steve wauch. Wow want a formidable bowling line up.

Azhar mahmood played a great innings and rightly deserves to be in top100. His partnership of 106 for the last two wicket where the contribution of other two batsman were only 6  and 0. It was one of the fastest pitch in durban. Pakistan eventually won by only 29 runs. Click here and you will know the importance of that innnings. Test # 1403

Still show me a test innings when sachin played a lone hand in the teams victory (Like lara 153 or 213 against australia )or when he batted whole day to save a test match like lara 123 against india.

All sachin fan can show is a stat. Take not out away from sachin and you will see lara scoring more runs than sachin in a test matches. Thats why lara still have more runs than sachin playing in lesser test matches. A not out may be good to indivicual players but if he scores less runs than it hardly makes a difference.  Infact sachin is so obssessed in getting not outs that even I saw a number 11 batsma zaheer khan outscoring him in a partnership against bangladesh when he made 248*.

Lara is an entertainer. Thats what lara said at his retirement. " did i entertain you?" and the answer was a resounding yes. Lara equalled record of matthew hayden of 380 with a six. Thats how lara is made. Talk about nerves. He wasnt hitting six for his hundred or two hundred rather he was chasing a world record.

And sachin. infact sachin played with such a snails pace in a test match against pakistan when he reached 190 that captain dravid was forced to declare when he made 194 because he tought sachin will take probably 20 more over to get to that remaining 6 runs.