It would have been a fitting end to Brian Lara's career: achieving a moral victory after a disappointing campaign by pounding on a lacklustre English team in an inconsequential match. It wasn't to be; his team lost after he was run out on 18 by Kevin Pietersen, a man who seems set to enjoy a similar career to Lara's, full of individual accolades masking the collective mediocrity of those around him.
Then again, perhaps the need to search for a moral victory epitomises the Lara years better than anything else.
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