Lara made highest first-class score on this day
West Indies' Brian Lara scored 501*(427), first-class cricket's highest individual score while playing for Warwickshire against Durham in a County championship match on June 6, 1994. His innings included 62 fours and ten sixes. Notably, Lara also became the first man to score seven centuries in eight first-class innings, the first of which was the Test record score of 375.