Difficult to surpass Rohit Sharma's 264: Lara

Melbourne, Nov 20: West Indies cricket legend Brian Lara said Wednesday that Indian batsman Rohit Sharma's record One-day International (ODI) knock of 264 will be difficult to surpass. Sharma stunned the cricketing world with his monster score against Sri Lanka last week, smashing the previous record of 219 held by fellow Indian Virender Sehwag. "We all grew up with the innings of Sir Vivian Richards' 189 in Manchester against England, and how he dominated the bowling then and that was the world record for quite some time," Lara was quoted as saying by Herald Sun Wednesday. "But I felt that 200 was possible. I just believe that this one (Rohit's innings) is a little bit unreachable now. This one is an exceptional performance, getting to that total and he still got out. It was a special innings. It's very, very difficult to see it being surpassed." Lara, who holds the world record for the highest individual score in a Test match (unbeaten 400)and first-class match (unbeaten 501), was on a flight to London for much of the innings but arrived at his hotel just in time to see the 27-year-old Indian right-hander reach his double-hundred. "When he got to 200 I thought, 'this man has got to a double century twice in one-day internationals’, but I didn’t know it was going to go on to something that, to me, seemed impossible,” Lara said.