I was coming off a five-wicket haul in Kingston, and they were saying things like, 'Come on mate, I thought you would enjoy the challenge. And there’s an authenticity to the crowd sound effects in Brian Lara Cricket ’99 that’s truly impressive to this day.

That was after tea, you know, and he still had the energy to maintain that same pace throughout the day. We were getting it to reverse swing, because Kensington Oval is very dry and abrasive, particularly on the square, and I was getting it to go both ways. I didn't make a score in the first couple of Test matches so I needed to get some runs in front of my home crowd. The rum certainly tastes better in the Caribbean than it does anywhere else in the world.

It was just an incredible day, right the way across. Sports 6 reports Codemasters. It was what Test cricket is all about.

But Brian said, 'No, no, no – one delivery per over. Commentary for the games is provided by commentator Geoffrey Boycott and cricket broadcaster Jonathan Agnew. Have a bit of fun and get out."

You could certainly see Warnie wasn't at his best.

Adams: Pedro is like a whippet, but when Brian hit the winning runs, all I can remember is I got to Brian quicker than Pedro did. When you login first time using a Social Login button, we collect your account public profile information shared by Social Login provider, based on your privacy settings.

That's far more intimidating than anyone sledging you aimlessly. Then it was crazy scenes at Kensington Oval. Brian Lara Cricket ’99, a follow-up to Brian Lara Cricket ’96, was developed and published by Codemasters for Sony PlayStation and PC. It seems the folks at Audiogenic were eating and sleeping cricket, as they developed multiple classic cricket video games into the 1990s.

I thought it was phenomenal.

He and McGrath were just fantastic on that last day. Coming off that injury, his confidence wasn't there and neither was his consistency; you'd get one or two bad balls that you could look to put away. There were very big turnouts in that series. The young batting prodigy seized his chance, staying with Waugh until after lunch on day two. He was just cool about it. Once your account is created, you'll be logged-in to this account.

Well, I wasn't the captain, so I couldn't bring myself back on. Steve Waugh: Potentially I could've given (McGrath) a bit more of a rest and given a part-timer a bowl, maybe. I'd watched a lot of cricket at Kensington Oval back in the day. He could hook and pull better than anyone I ever played with. Meanwhile, Greg Blewett, top scorer in two of Australia's four innings in the series, had been struck down by a thumb injury, handing another opportunity to highly-rated Tasmanian Ricky Ponting, who was to play his 23rd Test. I knew Shane Warne wasn't at his best, and I would be able to get a few loose ones.

When he was bowling with MacGill after lunch, we really tried to cash in. Stuart MacGill (Australia leg-spinner): Cricket tours are very long, and if you're not in form, you miss home.

Gillespie and McGrath bowled for two hours straight. And then I bowled one that started off stump and went away from him, but I got it a bit too full.

And he did that very, very well for more than an hour. And he just kept going.

If you want to relive classic cricket matches of the golden era with the legendary cricket players of those times, then Classic Match is the mode for you. Lara's double-hundred in Jamaica. He lived for that kind of challenge. Perry: We went over the top with our celebrations. In Brian Lara Cricket ’99, gameplay and match atmosphere combine to make an exciting gameplay experience. That's all about. Would love your thoughts, please comment. I reckon I was probably the first person to reach him. Griffith: Knowing Brian, he would've worked out exactly how he was going to go about the day, and what needed to be done to get the runs. Campbell: We weren't really worried about the runs at that stage, we just wanted to get West Indies off to a good start. It was like a boxing match, the way they went back and forth at each other. Well he's latched onto that and absolutely laced me through the covers for four. It might have been a bit of a kneejerk reaction, I'm not 100 per cent sure, but maybe I was also trying to put my mark on the team as a new captain: OK, let's cut back on the excesses – we can still have a great time and be ourselves, but just be aware that cricket is the priority.

We put on 72 if I'm not mistaken and it was the first 50-run opening partnership of the series.

There was no room for error.

Pedro said to me something along the lines of, 'OK well I can't take a piss, but I can't watch this anymore either'. But that tour for him was a bit of a struggle. As soon as he hit those winning runs, I was off.

And he was always hard on himself, Heals. But he was an underrated player. Steve Waugh: Maybe (the need for a curfew) was my fault – maybe we drank too much after the first Test match (laughs). Audiogenic would follow that up with Brian Lara Cricket ’96 for the Sega Mega Drive, and a PC version was released that same year.

It was what Test cricket is all about. He did that on that last day batting with the tail, with the way he controlled the strike, then put the foot on the accelerator when he needed to.

I played the PC version of Brian Lara Cricket ’99 on my Pentium II. There was no like, 'I'm the big guy here, I deserve this, I deserve that'.

It was just unbelievable tension. It was almost a passing over of the baton in the Australian side.

The Brian Lara Cricket story begins with a UK-based studio called Audiogenic Software Limited, which had actually been a recording studio (simply called Audiogenic Limited) before getting involved in the Commodore PET game manufacturing scene (if that transition seems odd, consider that the Commodore PET had a cassette drive, meaning data could be stored on cassette tapes). Gillespie and McGrath bowled for two hours straight. I was gutted. To this day I maintain that was the best knock I witnessed against us.

As a young batter, I had the best seat in the house, sitting in the changerooms with him, and that rubbed off on me. (His recall in Barbados) came at a time when he was thinking, Ponting played some very good shots. So how about the gameplay? But with what happened in Jamaica, and the fact that he got a score in Trinidad as well, we just knew that 300 was gettable if Brian batted like he could.

I thought, this is it – the match is finished. However, if you are playing a match in England, you will just hear claps, and overall there will be a less noisy crowd. McGrath was trying to get Lara out by going wide outside the off stump, trying to get him to play at wide balls, or sometimes get him lbw. After McGrath hit Lara in the head, Lara hit him straight away for four the next ball.

In the final session of day four, Barbadian opening pair Campbell and Griffith laid a strong foundation.

Steve Waugh: Ambrose was all over me. 3.11 Mb: Editors.

Still, it would be the fourth-highest chase they had achieved in Test cricket.

At that point, he wasn't anywhere near what he was … before he had his shoulder operation. He never complained. He was under massive scrutiny. Jason Gillespie (Australia fast bowler): Sherwin Campbell was a fine player but I always felt we were in the game with him, because early in his innings he was a bit of a shuffler; he didn't really commit on either front or back foot. Collins: In the dressing room, Lara was just Lara. Sherwin Campbell (West Indies opening batsman): Both guys spent some time at the crease before they really got going, especially Ponting … and then he got in and it just started to flow.

Test season; in this mode, the player controls a team for one to seven years of Test cricket. We felt very confident. I started to get sore but there was no way I wasn't bowling.

The company was reformed in 1985 as a game development studio, and that’s when the word Software was added to their name. The next ball, I came forward and played toward Ponting at cover, I thought it was a little further away from him than it was, and I do believe he got a good bounce, but he left me short.

But he would need support.

He moved brilliantly, his rhythm was always immaculate, and his last ball was as quick as his first.

It wasn't long before the captain was required in the middle, with Australia teetering at 3-36. The last thing my coach Malcolm Marshall said before I came out was, 'Don't run to Ponting'. Stephen knew, and I knew, that we had to keep our standards up.

He's going to be special'.