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On this day 21 years ago, Brian Lara stunned Australia with 153-run knock

Chasing a target of 308, West Indies at one point found itself at 105/5, but Lara's knock helped the side from the Caribbean to register an improbable one-wicket victory

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BS Web TeamANI New Delhi

It was on March 30, 1999, when former West Indies batsman Brian Lara stunned Australia with a 153-run knock in Barbados.

Chasing a target of 308, West Indies at one point found itself at 105/5, but Lara's knock helped the side from the Caribbean to register an improbable one-wicket victory.

WATCH: Brian Lara's 153 knock against Australia
 

What made the knock even more special is the fact that no other batsman from either side managed to score more than 40 runs in the second innings of the Test.

Lara's knock of 153 was studded with 19 fours and one six, and