some quotes from cricinfo.....
Lara became only the sixth batsman to speed from 0 to a 100 in one session. His charge to his 34th Test hundred included a belligerent attack on Danish Kaneria. It left him level with one legendary Indian batsman, Sunil Gavaskar, in the century tally and just one behind another, Sachin Tendulkar. The Kaneria-dismantling operation began with the 11th ball he faced, sashaying down the track and lofting straight into the sight-screen, but it was complete in the 25th over of the morning, when he scored 26 runs in a single over. Four pendulum-smooth swings of the bat - depositing the ball to long-off, midwicket, long-on and the roof straight behind the bowler's arm - and one swat down midwicket resulted in the phone number sequence of 406664. It was the second time that Lara had score more than 25 in an over, after his Robin Peterson bashing at Johannesburg three years ago.
In between, Kaneria went through 13 overs that cost 83 runs; 29 of those balls to Lara were whiplashed for 60. Kaneria, who'd dismissed both the openers with well-pitched legbreaks earlier in the day, didn't bowl anywhere as bad as his figures suggested. One man's mastery just left him clueless. The legbreaks were picked on the half-volley and the extension of the bat after striking the ball helped it soar way over the boundary. With extraordinary body balance, a perfect arm-swing and hand-eye co-ordination that few batsmen possess, Lara was simply unstoppable. His contribution in the 61-run partnership with Runako Morton, in just 31 balls, was an awesome 56.
