Pyari KT . If you look carefully there isnt big gulf between the record of lara and Sachin. Even in so called one day matches difference between lara and sachin is more due to difference in the number of matches they have played. One should not forget for majority of his career lara bated at 4, 5 in one day matches  Hardly a fancied position for making centuries. Plus wicket of westindies are generally considered low scoring in one day matches.  If you could see during early part of career when lara played at number 1, 2, 3 he took less number of matches  to score 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000 and 7000 runs than sachin tendulkar.  True he has overall more valued than Lara in one day matches.

However, I won't call him an allrounder in test matches. 20-25 wickets in so many matches hardly makes case for tendulkar as a bowler in test matches. Lara has his own value outside batting in test matches. If I am not wrong he is the fourth highest catcher in the test matches somewhere around 164. That adds to his overall value.  Talking about Sachins record in test matches, those have been bloated by not outs. If you see carefully lara clearly scores more runs than sachin  and it is the runs that counts more. Sachins' double hundred probably started with zimbabwe and ended with Bangladesh and that too not outs. Lara don't have a single hundred against Bangla or Zimbo.  Lara double hundred started with Australia ended with Pakistan. The fact that he was not out only 6 times in his career and still he manages an average of over 50 is incredible. If you discount not outs Sachin average falls below 50 where as lara still scores over 50 runs in an inning every time. Clearly meaning lara scores more runs in a test matches.


Lara has more world records than sachin.

-Lara has 2 triple  hundreds along with Bradman and Shewag. One of triple is quadruple. so that make him better than Bradman and Shewag in this regard.
- Only player to score quadruple in test and highest test match score.
- Only player to reclaim the world record
- Only player to have highest score in test and first class twice (375  and 501, 400 and 501) at same time.  Only other batsman who had this record once was Bradman in 1934.
- He hit 28 runs in an over  . A world record. He has also scored  26 runs in an over.
-Lara has scored an astonishing 20% of his team runs, a feat surpassed only by Bradman (23%) and George Headley (21%).
- largest proportion (54 percent of his team's runs in a Test (221 out of 390 and 130 out of 262). A world record

- 9 double hundred second to Bradman
-88 sixes in test matches. Second to Gilchirst.
- Half a thousand runs in one single first class innings. A world Record.
- Scored hundred in just one session during the test matches against pakistan. only become the sixth batsman to do so.

- double hundred and a hundered in a test matches. only fifth batsman to do so.

- Lara also has world record of most fours in test matches. that is 1559
- In Seven series he have scored 500 runs. A world recored equalled only by Bradman. Sachin has never scored 500 runs in a series.

These are only few. Apart from these he have also records in the list of  fastest centuries, scoring better than run a ball to score 100 thirce, batting for longest time, have 3 innings listed in top 15 ofwisdens top 100 all time best innings. Sachin has none in top 100 and so forth, world record for most number of double hundred by captain (joined by only Bradman) 1000 runs in 5 calender year (equalled only by Hayden),  only player to score 1000 runs in each continent (Asia, Australia, Europe, Americas, Africa), most double hundred away from home(world record) , fastest ever to score 9,000,   10,000,  and 11,000 , only player in the history of 130 years of cricket to score hundred, double hundred, triple hundred , quadruple and half a thousand, scroed 20,000 runs in international cricket along with sachin, most runs away from home, highest frequency of series for scoring 500 runs , most runs in a single test ground. Omg i have lost count