Wiaan Mulder took one of cricket's strangest decisions on Monday (July 7) during the second Test match between South Africa and Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club, which left cricket fans stunned and reminded many of Mark Taylor refusing to break Brian Lara's record.

The incident happened in 1998 during a Test match between Australia and Pakistan in Peshawar. Taylor made a knock of 334 in the first innings of the second Test. He walked off the field at stumps on Day 2 at the score wth Australia batting at 599/4.

It is worth noting that 334 was also the highest individual score by an Australian batter at the time. Taylor had equalled Don Bradman's record, which was set in 1930 against England at Leeds. In the Peshawar Test, Taylor was just one run away from being the outright holder of the significant feat but chose against it and instead declared the innings before start of play on Day 3.

Taylor later went on to reveal that he contemplated the decision over the night but decided to declare and decided that sharing the record with Bradman is something he was delighted with.

"I spent hours that night contemplating what to do. I finally got to sleep at about 2 o'clock in the morning. I was thinking about what to do so I certainly didn't crash as well as I'd hoped.I think ideally I would have batted on for 20 minutes just to put their openers out in the field for 20 more minutes before we declared," said Taylor in an interaction with cricket.co.au.

"But I thought if I did that I would then end up on 340 not out or something like that and I think people would have assumed that I'd batted on just for my own glory.I didn't want to send that message either so the more I thought about it, I came to the decision that the best thing I can do is declare (and) end up on the same score as Sir Donald, which I'm more than delighted with," Taylor added.

The record was later broken by Matthew Hayden in 2003 when he made a knock of 380 against Zimbabwe. Meanwhile, David Warner also went past Bradman and Taylor with an innings of 335 against Pakistan at Adelaide in 2019

The innings came when Bradman was still alive. At the time, the Australian cricket legend had congratulated the then Australia captain on equalling his record.

But I thought if I did that I would then end up on 340 not out or something like that and I think people would have assumed that I'd batted on just for my own glory.

"I didn't want to send that message either so the more I thought about it, I came to the decision that the best thing I can do is declare (and) end up on the same score as Sir Donald, which I'm more than delighted with," said a statement by Bradman through his spokesperson.