MULTAN (Reuters):

WEST INDIAN captain Brian Lara notched up his ninth double hundred before being dismissed for 216 on the fourth day of the second Test against Pakistan yesterday.

The 37-year-old Trinidadian left-hander, the leading scorer in Test cricket with 11,904 runs, is behind only Australian great Sir Donald Bradman on the all-time list of batsmen who have scored the most double hundreds in Tests.

Bradman, who played 52 tests, made 12 double hundreds.

Lara has also overtaken Bradman in having the highest number of scores in excess of 150 runs.

The Australian great achieved this feat 18 times, Lara has now done it 19 times.

The elegant batsman also holds the record for the highest Test score (400 not out) and (501) in first-class cricket.

Lara, who has scored a total of 34 hundreds in 130 matches, is the only man to reclaim the world Test batting record when he scored an astonishing unbeaten 400 in the final Test against England in Antigua in 2004.

He had scored 375 against the same team in 1994 to break Sir Garfield Sobers' record for highest Test score of 365.

Double hundreds by Brian Lara

277 vs Aus at Sydney Jan. 1993

375 vs Eng. at St John's Apr. 1994

213 vs Aus at Kingston Mar. 1999

221 vs SL at Colombo Nov.-Dec., 2001

209 vs SL at Gros Islet June 2003

202 vs SA at Johannesburg Dec. 2003

400 v Eng at St John's Apr. 2004

226 vs Aus at Adelaide Nov. 2005

216 vs Pak at Multan Nov. 2006not out