New Delhi: Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar catched up with his great contemporary and one of the greatest batsmen of all time, Brian Lara after the West Indies registered a great win against hosts England in the second Test match of the onging series yesterday at Headingly.


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Shai Hope led the struggling Windies to an astonishing five-wicket win on Tuesday as he became the first batsman to score hundreds in both innings of a first-class match at Headingley.


Set 322 to win, Windies won the match by five wickets with Hope returning 118 not out – his second hundred of the match after 147 in the first essay. It was their first win in England since 2000 and saw them level the three-match series at 1-1 after they suffered a humiliating innings and 209-run defeat inside three days in the first Test at Edgbaston.


Interestingly, it was the first of the two shock results in the last 24 hours. Today, Bangladesh defeated Australia by 20 runs in Mirpur.


Minutes after the Windies hit the winning run at Headingly, Tendulkar took to Twitter to reveal that he had in fact talk to legend Lara to tell that the win was a much needed one for the Windies.



The post became an instant hit with thousands of cricket fans hailing the Little Master for supporting the Windies team. Here are some of tweets:










Once a formidable force, the Windies have been reduced to a team of second string players with established plying their trade elsewhere as mercenaries. Then, there are also the administrative issues including those of selection processes, reducing once a proud team to mediocrity.


But at Headingly, they found two heroes in Hope and Kraigg Brathwaite, the later just missing his second hundred of the match by five runs. Brathwaite scored 134 runs in the first innings.